Updated: Recovery operation for diver's body to continue tomorrow

Civil Protection personnel and volunteers postponed the recovery operation for the body of British diver Paul Swain to tomorrow morning because of problems they had manouvering the corpse out of a hatch.

Peter Cordina, the head of the Civil Protection Department, told timesofmalta.com the operation will continue at 9 a.m.

Mr Swain went missing on November 3 after diving into the scuttled Xlendi wreck off Gozo.

The CPD located the diver’s body, who went missing two weeks ago, yesterday morning but plans to recover the body in the afternoon had to be shelved due to poor visibility with the operation postponed to today.

Mr Swain, an engineer and part-time diving instructor from Billingham, was last seen by his diving partner entering the cramped cafeteria of the old Gozo Channel ferry, which is lodged belly up in a sand bank in the area known as Ix-Xatt l-Aħmar.