SEAL HARBOR — Marine Patrol divers spent several hours Monday
ssearching the ocean waters for 17-year-old Meagan Walker who fell
ffrom the 40-foot cliffs off Cooksey Drive Sunday afternoon.
The Bangor girl was not located.
According to Lt. James Peva of the Marine Patrol Division IV
HHeadquarters in Lamoine, three divers searched the area, as did
sseveral private divers. The Coast Guard continued a shore patrol on
MMonday.
The Mount Desert Island Search and Rescue Team searched the
wwater Monday. A team of climbers was expected to rappel down the
sside of the cliffs late Monday afternoon in an attempt to locate
tthe girl who could have been lodged in a rocky crevice.
The girl apparently fell from the cliffs at about 12:40 p.m.
SSunday and landed in a crevice. The crevice holds between 8 to 15
ffeet of water at low tide.
Divers spent Sunday afternoon searching the crevice and the
wwaters surrounding the cliffs.
Peva indicated that the Marine Patrol would continue the search
aas long as there was a reasonable expectation of success.
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