'They Threw a Rope to My Husband but He Couldn't Reach It and Went Under. We Are Devastated'

South Wales Echo › June 10, 2005

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A distraught son saw his father shouting for help seconds before he disappeared beneath the waves and drowned on a diving trip.

Father-of-three Raymond Thomas, 47, from Cardiff, was diving on a ship wreck off Cornwall with his middle son Zachary when he got into trouble in the water with his diving buddy.

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'They Threw a Rope to My Husband but He Couldn't Reach It and Went Under. We Are Devastated'

Whitchurch High School pupil Zachary, 16, watched from the diving ship as, just metres away, his dad slipped beneath the waves. His family had ...

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