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    Re: More on Lost Diver Archived Message

    Posted by Mo on 10/5/2005, 10:16 am, in reply to "More on Lost Diver"

    I just got off the phone with the Coast Guard (everyone who was on the boat that day is being interviewed) and told him that we dived in ideal conditions for a scallop dive that day....flat ocean....no current....good vis. What went wrong?? No one will know until he is found.
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    Coast Guard continuing search for diver missing since Sunday

    Published in the Asbury Park Press 10/5/05
    BY MARGARET F. BONAFIDE
    TOMS RIVER BUREAU

    DOVER TOWNSHIP — On Saturday night, Christopher "Lou" Fabiano, 52, was kidding with friends about early retirement and tuna fishing while his wife worked with her newly acquired real estate license.

    By Sunday night, the Coast Guard was launching an intensive search for the experienced scuba diver who failed to surface from a dive earlier in the day.

    Fabiano, of Dover Township, was still missing at sea Tuesday night, authorities said. He was reported missing by Captain Daniel Robert Nash of the Belmar-based Outlaw at 11 a.m. Sunday while on a recreational 105-foot dive for scallops.

    Jacqueline Fabiano, 46, Christopher's wife of 24 years, said her husband was a capable and meticulous scuba diver. Sunday's trip was with the Asylum Dive Club, not with his usual dive partner, and was in deeper water than usual, she said.

    Jacqueline Fabiano learned her husband was the subject of a search when she called his cell phone Sunday afternoon.

    "Someone answered his cell at 4:30 (p.m.) and said he never surfaced. When were they going to let me know?" she said.

    Fabiano's family awaited word Tuesday on what happened to Christopher after he left the boat. As the news spread, family and friends gathered at the Dove Street home the Fabianos had moved to in August from the Cherry Quay section of Brick.

    The couple has two daughters, Melissa, 23, and JoAnna, 20.

    The search efforts by the Coast Guard and State Police Marine Services Bureau were suspended midnight Sunday after 625 square nautical miles were searched, said Petty Officer John Edwards, a Coast Guard spokesman. Two helicopters, the Coast Guard Cutter Mako, a C-130 Hercules aircraft, and four divers from the Point Pleasant Beach dive team were used in the search. On Monday, eight divers from state Troop C Teams Unit and four Navy divers continued the search, said Trooper Valentino Borrelli, Point Pleasant.
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