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Frantic rescue efforts to no avail after life-line slips free "Come on, Glenn. Come up." F . There was anxiety in the voice and on the face of Greg Scarborough as he kept repeating those words and looking through a hole in the ice into the- dark, cold, murky waters of Scugog, hoping that his friend and business partner Glenn Payne would swim to the surface. Minutes earlier, Payne's lifeline, a black and orange nylon rope attached to his waist, had somehow slipped loose as he and fellow diver Dorman Coles were getting set to attach a chain to the axle of a car that had gone through the ice and was lying in ten feet of water about 200 yards from the shore of Seven Mile Island. What started out as just a tough day's work for Payne, Coles and John Stole turned into tragedy shortly after 1:00 p.m. on a bitterly cold January day last week. The three divers were to be paid well for the bone-numbing job of locating two sub- merged cars and attaching chains so that they could be winched from the water. Diver Tom McCollum of Ajax Finding the first car and attaching the chains had been easy for the trio. They joked about it actually being warmer in the water than up on the ice. They were just starting to work on the second car further out in the lake when the mishap took place. Immediately after the end of Payne's lifeline floated to the surface, a half dozen men started punching holes in the ice around the larger diving hole. "Glenn's an experienced diver," his partner kept - saying. "He knows what to do. He'll come up under the ice and work his way to one of the holes." "Pound on the ice, make noise, anything that he might hear and be able to swim towards." A sledge hammer was used to break holes in the ice, and also an ice fishing auger. Somebody brought a small chain saw from shore. As the men on the surface worked desperately to chop and cut as many holes as possible, Payne's diving partner Dorman Coles went down under the frigid water again and again in an effort { Wan. a without success for almost an hour. to locate his friend and help him to safety. He would surface every couple of minutes to rest, and when asked if he was OK and able to continue in the water, he would just nod his head and go back under the ice. But after half an hour of searching, Coles was pulled from the water, close to exhaustion, the oxygen in his single tank almost depleted. His eyes half closed, mouth and face blue from the cold, Coles had to be helped onto a snowmobile which took him quickly to the warmth of a nearby house. - Coles and Payne were using single tanks and had been in the water for several minutes before the lifeline came loose. When Coles was hauled .onto the ice a half hour later, the chances of Payne finding his way to the surface before his air gave out or he succumbed to the freezing cold, all but dis- appeared. Still, the men on the surface, joined by this time by men from the Scugog Fire department, continued to cut holes in the ice. An hour later commercial diver Tom McCollum of Ajax arrived on the scene. Wearing a dry suit with twin air tanks and with a safety line of thick rope secured to his waist, he went into the dark water to search for the missing man. Time and again, he went - under the ice to make a 40-foot sweep of the area around the four-by-eight foot diving hole that was almost directly over the submerged automobile. McCollum started out using a powerful searchlight, but soon left it on the ice saying it was too murky in the water to be of any use. He was searching by touch and feel alone. A couple of times when he came to the surface, he told those standing on the ice that it was impossible to see anything beneath the water. Once when he surfaced he had to ask what area he had just searched. Somebody 'asked him if he wanted a compass. He said no, it would be too dark to read it. is pulled from the water after searching PORT PERRY STAR - Wednesday, January 17, 1979 - 9 Glenn Payne, 26, shortly before his life line slipped loose. McCollum continued his sweeps around the hole, searching the bottom and just under the ice. He looked in the submerged car and under it. His thick safety line kept getting caught and tangled on the ledges of ice, and he said the ice was frozen at several different levels. He also said there was no current in the area where Payne had disappeared. After 50 minutes in the water, McCollum said he would make one final sweep. He surfaced a couple of minutes later, shaking his (Turn to page 14) Photos, story by John B. McClelland Fellow diver Dorman Coles, near exhaustion as he Fah, - 4 : 9 John Stole, Payne, and Dorman Coles. iB Aa . yo Loa! . searched for his missing friend. AL atl 5 PAS pone SE AI a. OH a SMT TL a ee de VT