Last month the New Zealand Herald reported a rather sad story about a missing memorial plaque. In August 1979 John Barrie Catton was diving a reef north of the Northern Arch in the Poor Knights with two friends when he failed to surface. His body was never found.
3 or 4 months later, a group of divers placed a bronze plaque 37 metres deep at Northern Arch, in memory of him. This year the plaque appears to have gone missing, and the suspicion is that it has been stolen by another diver, which if it’s true would be very disappointing.
The full story is in the New Zealand Herald.
