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Well, I think that deals with the finding of the body in August of 1997, the materials that were found with the body and the ropes and the knots. What I am going to do now is to turn to the 1997 dives and what was pulled out of the water at what time, and on occasions some dives where nothing was found. We have heard evidence of dives in 1997, 2004 and then most recently dives carried out this year, only a weekend or so ago by Mr. Campbell Curtis and his team. I am going to deal with each of those sets of dives as we come to them in the chronological history, so I am going to deal first with 1997.
Following the recovery of the body from the lake, there was the first dive on the 14th of August which I have already mentioned. Nothing else was recovered at all on that day. Just to set the preliminaries to these searches, on the 18th of August Mr. Foy, you remember the officer gave evidence to us about setting the buoy at Coniston for our view. He had also been there in 1997. He went on the 18th to Coniston with Mr. Cardew, the first sonar surveyor. They met Mr. Mason briefly. He went off to recreate his dive when the body had been recovered and laid a marker buoy, and Mr. Foy used a theodolite and computer to carry out his exercise. The computer he told us held LS ordinance survey data, and he used the computer to carry out the exercise on which he could plot positions on a plan, and he believed that the plotting gave a sufficiently accurate position of the buoy that Mr. Mason had placed. You have the plan which Mr. Foy produced, tab three in our folders. I do not think we need to particularly look at them, but there they are, tab three, the two folders dated August of 1997 from Mr. Foy.