Skin-Diver Drowned
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, May 21. A skin-diver sank and drowned today as he reached for help from his companions who were 6ft away in a runabout off Tiritiri Island in the Hauraki gulf. One of them made a short but vain search for him before running out of air. The skin-diver’s body was found in 35ft of water about an hour and 10 minutes later by a member of the coastguard.
The dead man was Graham James William Kairan, aged 29, a fibrous plasterer, married with one child, of 82 Rosamund avenue. Mount Roskill, Auckland. Mr Kairau, who had been gathering crayfish with a friend, was seen to be in trouble as he swam to the boat and moments later he sank.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31375, 22 May 1967, Page 12
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