Search continues for Ottawa scuba diver missing in Nova Scotia

Posted Feb 23, 2012 04:13:04 PM.

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DIGBY, N.S. – Search crews are continuing to look for a scuba diver who was swept away by the strong currents of the Bay of Fundy.

The Mounties in Nova Scotia received a report about a missing diver who was diving for sea urchin on Wednesday at 1:45 p.m. off Digby.

Police say the 48-year-old Ottawa man was diving with two colleagues in the Grand Passage area near Westport at the time he went missing.

The RCMP, the coast guard and search crews are scouring the shoreline today.

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