A marine police officer who rescued two divers trapped in a maritime cave near Hongdo, Hansan-myeon, Tongyeong-si disappeared early today (7th).

I'm Jeong Mo, a 34-year-old police officer from the Tongyeong Marine Police Station in Gyeongnam.

According to Haekyung, police officer Jeong was sent to rescue work with two fellow police officers at about 4:22 pm yesterday, but was isolated in about 10 minutes due to bad weather.

Since then, two police officers and two divers have been rescued today at around 1:50 am, excluding police officer Jung, but police officer Jung is still missing.

It is estimated that Haekyung was caught up in the waves of the Seongjeong Fortress that had been in the cave at about 1:00 AM today.

It is known that Jung had a severe exhaustion while waiting for the crest to drop from the rock in the cave.

Haekyung has been searching for 15 patrol boats and 13 rescue workers since this morning to search for police officers.

The sea wave height near Hongdo is 1~1.5m.

The rescued divers were skinned scuba with 10 colleagues from yesterday morning, and after being separated from the party, they were isolated in a cave by strong winds and high waves.

(Photo = Tongyeong Haekyung, Yonhap News)