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This is the latest I could find:
It was one week ago Wednesday night that a Tennessee man apparently undertook a solo dive into a cave at Vortex Springs in Holmes County, and disappeared.
The search for 30-year old Ben McDaniel is on indefinite hold.
Holmes County Sheriff’s officials say they’ve exhausted the supply of all local and regional certified cave divers and are putting out a nationwide call for more.
They say to continue the extremely risky search operations in the tight, confining spaces of the 1600+ feet cave, they need a small highly-qualified expert cave diver.
McDaniel wasn’t reported missing until last Friday, when a Vortex Springs employee noticed his vehicle had been parked in the lot for several days.
The initial search revealed McDaniel had planned to make a solo cave dive, placing extra decompression tanks at the mouth of the cave for his ascent.
Yesterday authorities expanded the search to the property surrounding the springs, using helicopters, bloodhounds, cadaver dogs, horses and 4-wheelers.
The cadaver dogs alerted at the edge of the spring, reaffirmed investigators beliefs that McDaniel’s body is still inside the cave.
http://www.wjhg.com/news/headlines/101531233.html?ref=233
That truly sucks..
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