The military community is in mourning. After thirty hours of research in the harbor of Brest, the lifeless body of the diver-deminer Adam Tahri was found on Saturday around 7 p.m., we learned from the Maritime Prefecture of the Atlantic. Aged 27 and from Finistère, the second master had been missing since Friday afternoon. He had not come to the surface after diving training. Significant resources were then deployed to try to locate it. The search continued on Saturday despite the end of the rescue operations on Friday evening at 9 p.m.
I pay tribute to SM Adam TAHRI missing at sea today in Brest. He was assigned to the Atlantic Clearance Diver Group. My heartfelt thoughts and those of the Navy are with his family and his comrades. pic.twitter.com/8EkNT4YOiV
– Chief of the Naval Staff (@amiralVandier) September 17, 2021
The Brest prosecutor’s office took up the investigation which was entrusted to the research brigade of the maritime gendarmerie of Lorient. The Chief of Staff of the Navy paid tribute on Twitter to the young soldier who was assigned to the group of Atlantic clearance divers. “My heartfelt thoughts and those of the Navy are with his family and his comrades”, reacted Admiral Pierre Vandier.