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Then on the 14th, Mr. Mason returned to the scene with police divers. He was asked to indicate where the body was found, and they followed the same exercise, swam out for about sixteen minutes to a depth of 24.6 metres. Mr. Mason indicated what he thought was the approximate position and let the police do the rest. He said it was difficult to say precisely where the body had been, but when he had indicated the position, the police put a buoy in position to mark the spot. He said he did on that occasion find the rocky outcrop that he had identified on the earlier dive.
The police diver that went with him on that occasion was Mr. McMahon, and he said they had swam out to about 27 metres and then swam South until they came to an indentation in the lake bed. Mr. Mason had not mentioned an indentation to us, I do not think. That indentation was about four feet by two feet in size, and at that point Mr. McMahon had spoken along his communication line to those on the surface and a weight was put on the bed at the spot and a buoy was attached. Mr. McMahon acknowledged that the dive records did not indicate any depth at which the finding was made and the weight was fixed. It merely recorded a dive to a depth of a maximum of 30 metres. He was satisfied however that when he was at the indentation, that he was at about 27 metres. He said no other search process was carried out. You will remember that Mr. McMahon came back to us and spoke about taking the video on the 18th of September, so about a month later, and I will come back to that.