Search efforts for a missing diver have been called off.

HM Coastguard began the search for a diver reported missing off Beachy Head, Eastbourne, yesterday, July 13, at 12.45pm.

RNLI crews from Eastbourne and Newhaven were also tasked by the coastguard to assist with the search.

However, the search was called off late last night after nothing was found.

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Aircrafts were also seen searching overhead.

It comes as a diver, a man in his 50s, was pronounced dead in hospital after being pulled from the water off east Brighton by a coastguard helicopter five days earlier on Monday, July 8.

A coastguard helicopter in East Brighton Park (Image: Sussex News and Pictures)

A spokeswoman for HM Coastguard said: “There was a search yesterday for a missing diver off Beachy Head.

“Despite extensive searches throughout the day and night, the search for the missing diver was called off last night with nothing found.”

A spokesman for Sussex Police said: "We assisted emergency services in the search for a diver in difficulty in the sea off the coast of Eastbourne on Saturday, July 13.

"Any further updates will be provided in due course."