Police were scrambled to hunt for two divers missing in Castle Harbour on Tuesday night.

The alarm was raised from the 18-foot Speedbird when it was half a mile south off Gurnett Rock after the pair failed to surface from a depth of 90-100 feet as darkness fell. Marine Police sent craft while the Bermuda Biological Station for Research joined the hunt. But the missing divers were picked up by a passing fishing boat after resurfacing safely but losing their dive boat in the murk and deciding to swim for the shore.