Police who have been investigating the deaths of two divers who died earlier this year on HMS Syclla the artificial wreck sunk off Cornwall are looking in to whether silt dumped in the area affected conditions.
David White, 42, and Kay Moss, 43, from Gloucestershire, died while diving the wreck in Whitsand Bay in August.
Investigations are under way to find out if material dredged from the River Tamar and dumped nearby the wreck site explains large silt deposits at the site. Det Con Derek Farrow, who is leading the investigation, said: "It is certainly the case that the Scylla has got a lot of silt on it in the short space of time that it has been down. "It's a line of inquiry that we are looking at".
Environmental campaigners have argued that waste from the site two miles off Rame Head is not dispersing out to sea, as intended but is instead polluting inshore waters.
Wednesday, 5 September 2007
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