24 August 2012
A British man aged 20 who died while snorkelling in Malta was a Cambridge University student from Surrey, it emerged today.
The student, said to be Marcus Hughes-Hallett, disappeared after getting stuck in rocks beneath caves off the Mediterranean island of Comino, a tiny resort between Malta and Gozo.
Local media said Mr Hughes-Hallett was on holiday with his parents and his father raised the alarm when his son swam into a cave but didn’t come out.
Other holiday-makers swam into the caves and found him unconscious.
He was given mouth-to-mouth resuscitation but did not respond to treatment.
