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4 Divers Rescued After Going Missing Off Cape Fear, Coast Guard Says

The alarm was raised when the men did not resurface on Sunday.

Four divers have been rescued after they initially went missing around 50 miles off Cape Fear, North Carolina, authorities said. The men were diving from a recreational boat around 63 miles east of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, at around midday but failed to resurface, the Coast Guard said in a statement. After the alarm was raised, multiple rescue teams were mobilized to find the divers, with several vessels and aircraft—including an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter and an HC-130 Hercules airplane—dispatched to join the search. Early Monday, USCG Mid-Atlantic tweeted to say the men had been “found and rescued” roughly “46 miles southeast of Cape Fear River, North Carolina.”