Sea cucumber harvesting. Divers death

Tonga Police warn against risky sea cucumber harvesting after three deaths

Police said they were concerned after a 60-year-old man died on Monday night while diving for sea cucumbers at Koloa, Vava’u.

As Kaniva News reported on Tuesday morning the fisherman went diving with a group of divers. He was rushed to hospital.

The deceased was the third within a week after two sea cucumber divers died in Tongatapu on July 6.

How these divers died was still unknown.