Found Deceased UK - Nicola Bulley Last Seen Walking Dog Near River - St Michaels on Wyre (Lancashire) #6

[JennieM]

Updated article, search will start at 8am

Peter Faulding, a world-renowned forensics expert and founder of private search and rescue organisation Specialist Group International, has confirmed his team of divers will be on site from 8am.

He said last night that he will be bringing 'high-spec' sonar equipment, worth around £55,000, that has a 'very high hit rate' and can 'find people within the hour' in search operations.

Mr Faulding, who will also survey the route of the river by helicopter, told Sky News: 'We're assisting with our dive team. We carry out all the underwater operations in the south east for the police anyway, but we're bringing a particularly high-spec piece of equipment, 1,800-kilohertz specialist side-scan sonar.

'Each year we deal with a lot of drownings and we locate them extremely quickly. The difference with this sonar is that it's very, very high frequency.

'It's about £55,000 and it scans the river and I can see every stick and stone lying on the river bed. We've got a very high hit rate with this.

He added: 'Our sonar is probably a bit more superior but I've got a lot of specialist search expertise and I've worked on hundreds of these cases and we always generally find people within the hour in lakes etc.'

Diving team to use helicopters and sonar TODAY in Nicola Bulley search

Peter Faulding, a world-renowned forensics expert who is a diver for the police and has worked on hundreds of cases across the south east, believes it is unlikely the river bank is the correct answer.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[PS8800]

It's not about being 'pretending to be familiar' with Nicola/NB it's so there's no confusion on who someone is talking about. MP I fear will cause confusion.

What does MP stand for?

 

[MachinaCollecta]

What does MP stand for?

Missing person

 

[L_M_H]

I'm not disparaging Nicola here, but i was thinking how generic she looked that day - she also had her distinctive blonde hair tied back into a ponytail. Could all the witnesses categorically say it was actually Nicola they saw from such a distance away?

We haven't seen any CCTV footage of Nicola arriving at the school or walking from her car in the school car park. You would hope that the school had CCTV.

The initial woman to see the loose dog and phone on the bench must've had to put the harness on the dog and then attach the lead, and then secure the lead to the bench...it's interesting that she bothered if she was in a hurry. I certainly wouldn't have touched someone else's dog or belongings personally. <modsnip>

Maybe Nicola was abducted before she got to the bench and was taken into a field.

Does it look like there are a pair of crutches in the back of the car to anyone else?

 

[JennieM]

'The car park next to the school is well used, although there are apparently no CCTV cameras.'

Questions about Nicola Bulley's disappearance has spawned questions

The riddle of mother-of-two Nicola Bulley - who 'vanished into thin air' while walking her dog Willow on Friday - has spawned 15 questions.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[sriraaacha]

Everybody is describing her with blonde hair… I’d actually say she’s brunette? A very light brown I suppose but definitely not what I’d class as blonde. It seems hair colour can be perceived differently too…

 

[L_M_H]

Yes, all colour and everything we see is dependant on light. Obviously the lighting is completely different in every photograph of her, so we perceive her hair colour differently in every photo we see. Plus we each have ever so slightly different light-receiving cones in our eyes and different ideas about what colour is.

 

[Allabouttrial]

What does MP stand for?

My case in point!

 

[StinReboog]

It seems to me that either she is in an unusual underwater formation in the river, a hidden hole under a bank or some such. Or. She has travelled far further down the river than anticipated. They will surely have searched the immediate area very thoroughly. But further afield maybe. Hopefully this new search team will be able to rule some other things out.

 

[bringmeacupoft]

Updated article, search will start at 8am

Peter Faulding, a world-renowned forensics expert and founder of private search and rescue organisation Specialist Group International, has confirmed his team of divers will be on site from 8am.

He said last night that he will be bringing 'high-spec' sonar equipment, worth around £55,000, that has a 'very high hit rate' and can 'find people within the hour' in search operations.

Mr Faulding, who will also survey the route of the river by helicopter, told Sky News: 'We're assisting with our dive team. We carry out all the underwater operations in the south east for the police anyway, but we're bringing a particularly high-spec piece of equipment, 1,800-kilohertz specialist side-scan sonar.

'Each year we deal with a lot of drownings and we locate them extremely quickly. The difference with this sonar is that it's very, very high frequency.

'It's about £55,000 and it scans the river and I can see every stick and stone lying on the river bed. We've got a very high hit rate with this.

He added: 'Our sonar is probably a bit more superior but I've got a lot of specialist search expertise and I've worked on hundreds of these cases and we always generally find people within the hour in lakes etc.'

Diving team to use helicopters and sonar TODAY in Nicola Bulley search

Peter Faulding, a world-renowned forensics expert who is a diver for the police and has worked on hundreds of cases across the south east, believes it is unlikely the river bank is the correct answer.

www.dailymail.co.uk

I hope today, there will be some movement for the family and friends, they must be entering today with such trepidation.

I hope Mr Faulding lives up to his statement above.

 

[JennieM]

I hope today, there will be some movement for the family and friends, they must be entering today with such trepidation.

I hope Mr Faulding lives up to his statement above.

Well said

 

[CriLondon]

I hope Mr. Faulding will be unsuccessful .
Not because of his boasts, his equipment, his book or his team .
Because that might mean there is hope Nicola is still alive .

 

[Fika]

I believe that N is in the water and that it was accidental. Being a good swimmer when swimming in pools or outdoor is not the same as falling in cold water fully clothed which would make person panic and grasp for air which is easy to inhale water and drown. Even people who swim good are at risk or drowning.
IMO

 

[LuluR38]

I'm still so heartbroken by all this, but I would really like to know why LE haven't /didn't release photos of NB on the day she went missing if they had them? And of course no reconstruction. (In other cases LE have released pictures from the day, to try and jog peoples memory I assume, along with the description, and later a reconstruction of some sort I know different police forces will have different ways of doing things, but this has been particularly jarring). I was also struck that I wouldn't necessarily have picked out the picture from the description in NB's case. I do still wonder if there is a line of enquiry we aren't privy to, which precludes the aspects we are familiar with seeing in MSM, which is why so many of us find this particular case odd.

Perhaps didn’t release them as they wanted descriptions of what she was wearing from the people they had as witnesses … a few people saw her from close up and also afar, and to show an image wouod potentially confuse people who had thought they’d seen her or actually seen her / create false sightings …

It wasn't on the floor. LE have Stated in their press conference that it was on the bench.

it was found on the floor …

 

[kiwi50]

In the case of Libby Squire her body was just about to enter open sea after 7 weeks going along the River Hull. She was discovered by RNLI just in time.

Thankyou for that, how lucky they were to find her body before it reached the sea.
I do hope they search the entire river, if a body is never found I don’t think a family can ever get closure.

 

[AnalyticalMind]

Does anyone know what the visibility is like under the surface? Is it very silty?

There was a YouTube video shared in the last thread of someone wild swimming in this exact spot, the visibility looked very poor.

 

[LuluR38]

Those radars are great but they don't penetrate mud and the river has been moving so there will be mud in the deepest places..

I'm finding it disheartening to tell the truth..
I'll be the first to criticise LE but not in this case, no way.
Their work is exemplary and I have experience in searching for missing people, SAR, ground searches.

Unless a drowning is actually witnessed there is no evidence unless a vehicle is left close to the drowning spot and even then it does not prove a drowning, just increases the likelihood of it.

It is long tedious work , repetitive and exhausting because you have to search each place every time the tide turns.
And every time you search it is different because the tide changes the landscape.
Nicola is wearing black clothes which make the job far more difficult on land or water.
Without a colour you go blind.. really difficult.

Failing to secure a scene and allowed people to walk all over it and even chill out on the bench is not exemplary … did they record the shoe or boot prints in the area in the mud which could have corroborated the witnesses (whoever ties the dog up / the man who found the phone on the floor etc or perhaps even if a shoe matching nicolas had been any where near that bench? (Eg In front of it as if sat down etc) or on the river bank. too late now it’s become a tourist attraction it would seem…

 

[rebel123]

She was on a Teams meeting, but had switched off the camera and sound, is that correct? Is that normal practice for her to do that?
Why would she do that?

 

[Ilkleymoor]

Sorry if I’ve missed this information. But was she wearing headphones on the Teams call? If so I’m guessing they were wireless ones?

If she’s fallen in, would these float?

 

[Falconaire]

<modsnip>

kudos to the diving team going in tomorrow, hoping for some answers but also sad either way as nothing feels good in this case. The best outcome would be NB walking through the front door to her family.

The CCTV which was stated as not working at the back/side of caravan site was incorrect info, the friend cleared this up on FB and on the MSM report below. It was infact an exit onto Rowanwater (upper field). There is a road that leads onto this exit over a gate.

Everything we know as desperate search for Nicola Bulley enters its second week

Nicola went missing on Friday, January 27, and hasn't been seen since

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If they don’t find NB in the river, then surely the water at Rowanwater should be searched as that’s near to the last sighting of NB IMO. Do we know if it’s been searched already?