Overview
- The diver entered the water alone around 11 am Tuesday on Gili Air, then failed to resurface about an hour later.
- Friends and local dive operators raised the alarm, and multi-agency teams found him at about 1:20 pm at a depth of roughly 12 metres.
- Paramedics tried CPR on shore at 1:33 pm, then medical staff declared him dead.
- Police notified the British Embassy, and a post-mortem is planned at Bhayangkara Hospital in Mataram.
- He was named in family tributes as Robert Ladd, 45, as officials warned that the Indonesian Throughflow drives powerful rip currents that make solo shore entries especially dangerous, noting a similar nearby tourist death reported in March 2025.