Four divers who were reported missing Sunday afternoon off the coast of Cape Fear, North Carolina, have been found alive, the U.S. Coast Guard said Monday.
The Coast Guard and Navy found and rescued the four missing divers approximately 46 miles southeast of Cape Fear River, authorities announced on social media.
The four men were reported missing to Coast Guard officials around noon Sunday after they were diving off a leisure boat called “Big Bill’s” and did not resurface, authorities said.
Officials from Coast Guard sectors in Wilmington, North Carolina, and Charleston, South Carolina, were notified and launched search and rescue efforts. The boat was located roughly 63 miles east of Myrtle Beach.
Authorities did not immediately release the identities of the divers.