Two divers face investigation after flouting coronavirus rules to travel hundreds of miles to the south coast of England. One had travelled nearly 500 miles from Edinburgh to Lyme Bay, while the other had come 100 miles from Cornwall.
Their diving session was only discovered when one of them went missing - sparking an air and sea search on Saturday afternoon.
Two coastguard helicopters, RNLI lifeboats, fishing boats and a Royal Navy warship searched the area after responding to an HM Coastguard Mayday.The lone diver was spotted by a sailor on HMS Tyne after nearly two hours of searching for him.He was three miles from where he had entered the water, having lost sight of the diving boat.A Dorset Police spokesman said the two men, from