Diver sara belluomini examines a wreck believed to be a 1943 Lockheed F-4 reconnaissance airplane that went down in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the coast of Tuscany, during World War Ⅱ. Sara and her father Dino, owners of the Cecina Diving Center in Cecina, Italy, met the airplane's pilot, David Toomey, in 2000 when he traveled to Italy to search for his airplane, named Duckypoo, the pet name of the aircraft's crew chief (see "Can This P-38 Be Saved?," Oct./Nov. 2009). According to underwater photographer Stefano Ruia, the Belluomini family was unable to help Toomey locate his aircraft in 2000 because his time in Italy was too short to conduct a thorough search. (Toomey died in January 2014.) The divers say that this wreck is in the area of the Tyrrhenian Sea where Toomey told them he believed his airplane sank.
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