RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA
rad­hi­ca.sookraj@guardian.co.tt

Af­ter sev­er­al hours of search­ing, divers have found the body of Kur­ty Phillip of Cal­i­for­nia who drowned while swim­ming in a pond at the Wind­sor Park quar­ry on Sun­day.

The body was fished out of the pond around 7 am on Mon­day by divers from the Hunters Search and Res­cue Team Hard­grounds.

Hard­grounds founder Ren Gopiesingh said around 11:30 pm, they re­ceived a call for help.

"We went to the spot at 6 am and be­gan search­ing. We spot­ted the body about 25 feet be­low the sur­face of the pond, and we con­tact­ed the Cou­va po­lice who ad­vised us to stand down. The Coast Guard, Army and po­lice came, and they brought the body up. It is still there wait­ing to be viewed by the Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer," Gopiesingh said.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands Phillip came to the quar­ry with a group of friends and got in­to some dif­fi­cul­ty. One of the friends tried to help him but could not. Phillip dis­ap­peared in the murky wa­ter.

A call was made for help, but the search had to be aban­doned as dark­ness fell.

Guardian Me­dia will bring you more as this sto­ry de­vel­ops.