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News 5 THE AGE 1 SATURDAY 31 JANUARY 1998 Search for US divers called off Briefly Paul McGeough Missing couple asked to dive alone, says boat crew else. This has been an accident waiting to happen. My thought is that if the count was done on Sunday it gave the right number but the wrong number of people were on board." Hopes that the couple might still be alive were faint when search aircraft took off early yesterday. However, rescue authorities called off the search last night. The National Search and Rescue Organisation (AusSAR) said it found no trace of the couple despite flying 58 sorties over 8629 square nautical miles of the Coral Sea.

But Chief Superintendent Col McCallum said Queensland emergency services would continue helicopter sweeps of the coast today. After the 26 tourists boarded the MV Outer Edge they were given an explanation of where they were likely to go and a safety briefing. As they arrived at each of the three dive sites they were told the lie of the reef and given instructions for the dive. Mr Jesienowski said: "The skipper explained the dive at the third site. The water was 20 metres deep but the plan was not to go deeper than 12 metres and to stay in the water for no more than 40 minutes.

"They all went in at the same time, and, according to the log, the last diver came up after 45 minutes. "It looks like we planned their dive, but the Lonergans did not dive our plan." Mr Jesienowski said the boat stayed in the dive area for 10 to 15 minutes after the dive while equipment was cleaned. "As you clean, you look out over the water None of us saw them," he said. He said he looked over and around the whole dive site as he dived to retrieve the boat's anchor. "I would have' seen their bodies or their bubbles if they were still in the area." PORT DOUGLAS The missing Anierictin tourists, Thomas nnd Hileun l.onoi,!in, went into the water alone on (lie Great Harrier Reef before their dive boat left without them last Sunday.

Mr Karl Jesienowski, a crew member on the MV Outer liiijje, yesterday said that Mr and Mrs l.onergan, aged 33 and 2ti, were experienced certified divers and had been with a supervised group for the first two of three dives. When the boat anchored at St the group. It was not discovered until Tuesday night that the couple had gone missing. "It is common for divers going into and out of the water not to show up in the log book on diving boats and I'd say the first head count of passengers is wrong in about 10 per cent of cases," Mr lesienowski said. "You find that there are people in the toilet or up on the bow of the boat or somewhere Crispin Neef they had asked the crew if they could leave the group and dive alone as a "buddy It was the last time they were seen alive.

Mr lesienowski was the last man hack on the boat before it returned to Port Douglas, north or Csiirns. It appears that no specific attempt was made to confirm the l.onergans' return to the boat despite the fact they had been authorised to leave Trackside tribute leaves racing veteran on a high man, in his mid-30s, received severe fractures to his arm, leg and face but no spinal, head -or internal injuries. Taxes stay fixed FEDKUAI. Government taxes on alcohol, tobacco and petrol products will not be increased as part of the six-month review of prices. This also means there will be no change to the diesel fuel rebate for farmers and miners.

Jail for shooting A entrepreneur who used a sawn-olf semi-automatic rille to shoot at a nightclub crowd controller was sentenced yesterday in the Supreme Court to lit months' jail. Justice Rosemary Balmford suspended six months of the sentence imposed on Dimitri (ieorgiadis. 26, of West Preston, who had been drinking and using amphetamines before being refused entry to the Mega nightc lub in Flinders Street on 15 September 1996. She said Cleorgiadis, who pleaded guilty to reckless conduct endangering life, fortunately missed the controller, Mr Vita linmcatelln. Lotteries TATT'S 2: Winning nuinlicis: 52 and 67, for a division-one dividend of 16-12.

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Howard pledges Katherine aid THE Prime Minister, Mr John Howard, yesterday pledged financial aid to victims of the Katherine floods and to help rebuild communications. Mr I luward toured Katherine to see the destruction caused by this week's floods, which killed one person and caused a damage bill of millions of dollars. Later, speaking to emergency workers and residents from the back of a ute, Mr Howard promised $1000 for every adult and $200 for every child affected by the flooding and $5 million towards rebuilding the Stuart I Iighway, the main link between Adelaide and Darwin, cut by the floods. More than 1600 Katherine residents were forced to flee their homes by Monday's record floods and are now only just returning. PAGE A10: Picture.

Registrations- soar A KliCOKU 178,327 new cars were registered in Victoria in 1997, the Bureau of Statistics said yesterday. In December, 16,173 new vehicles were registered, which was also the highest monthly figure on record and almost 20 per cent higher than December 1996. Nationally, new car registrations rose 21 per cent. Man survives fall A MAN astonished ambulance officers yesterday by surviving a 20-metre fall inside a petrol tank at the Mobil Refinery in Yarraville. The man fell to the floor of the empty tank about 1.30pm while doing maintenance work, a Metropolitan Ambulance Service spokesman said.

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