The search for a missing diver Monday on St. Croix turned into a recovery effort, the V.I. Police Department reported Tuesday.
On Monday at approximately 5:38 p.m., the 911 Emergency Call Center received a call regarding a missing diver. It was reported that the man went diving off the Fisherman’s Dock in Frederiksted around 9:00 a.m. and had not returned., according to the police report.
St. Croix Rescue, VIPD Marine Unit, DPNR and private fishermen mobilized sometime in the
afternoon to search for the missing diver. After several hours of searching, the search was
suspended for the evening around 7:30 p.m. with plans to resume at first light the following day, the police report stated.
Private fishermen recruited additional manpower and continued to search the waters and found the body of the diver just after 11:00 p.m, the report stated.
The diver’s body was found and identified by next of kin as 51-year-old Craig Todman, aka “Tygah,” police said.
