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Boesmansgat

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/ 9 January 2005

Boesmansgat: ‘Dave’s not coming up’

In a thick Australian accent, Dave Shaw’s first words to me on Thursday evening were: ”How you doin’, mate?” He reminded me somewhat of Captain Haddock from the Tintin comics. He would be diving to a depth of 270m to attempt to recover the body of Deon Dreyer who drowned at Boesmansgat in December 1994. He never returned.

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