Geisha Kow­lessar

Mem­bers of the T&T Coast Guard have height­ened their search for two men who went miss­ing af­ter div­ing for lob­sters at Crown Point, To­ba­go. The men, iden­ti­fied as Lear­mond Chap­maund and De­lano Ben­jamin, have been re­port­ed miss­ing since Tues­day. Pub­lic re­la­tions of­fi­cer for the T&T Coast Guard, Lieu­tenant Kirk Jean-Bap­tiste, said yes­ter­day the men were div­ing in an area called "Fly­ing Reef", off Crown Point. He said the Coast Guard re­ceived in­for­ma­tion around 1.30 pm on Tues­day and im­me­di­ate­ly dis­patched a ves­sel, CG 21, from Staubles Bay to as­sist in the search.

It was re­port­ed the men made two dives for lob­sters but on their third did not resur­face. They were us­ing a ves­sel named Al­i­cain. Al­so as­sist­ing in the search were mem­bers of the Spe­cial An­ti-crime Unit of T&T (Sautt) and the Air Guard. Jean-Bap­tiste said all ef­forts were be­ing made to find the men. He said the men were div­ing in a reef were there were "small caves." He said be­cause of the caves, it might be dif­fi­cult to lo­cate them if they had, in fact, drowned. He said scu­ba div­ing equip­ment was found in the area where they went miss­ing.