It is nearing two weeks since missing mom Nicola Bulley went missing and a specialist search diver is saying that it is practically impossible that she's in the sea.
Law enforcement searching for 45-year-old Nicola Bulley turned their attention to the sea after an expert dive squad was unable to find her in the River Wyre.
This comes as police ruled out any foul play in the case.
Bulley was last seen on a dog walk in St Michael's on Wyre, near her home in Inskip, Lancashire, on the morning of January 27. She had just dropped her two daughters off at school.
This week, independent underwater forensic experts Specialist Group International were drafted in amid the large-scale search effort to find her.
Speaking to The Mirror, dive expert and chief of the aforementioned organization, Peter Faulding, said his team's sonar would have been able to find Bulley in less than an hour if she were in the river. Despite police saying they believe she fell in the river, he said it was unlikely.
Speaking to GB News, he also said it is "unlikely" she will be found in the sea.
He said: "We've been using the high frequency side scan sonar in this stretch today and it's so detailed I can even see every stone of it. She's not in this stretch.
"We also sonar-ed on the other side down yesterday in the tidal river. Now if you take a football on a tidal river…when the tide goes out the the ball will go down the stream and then as soon as the tide turns it will come back in again. It'll end up back at the same place.
"For Nicola to get out to the sea would be impossible, literally, it is such a long way."
Faulding also referred to this particular missing person case as "baffling," telling TalkTV: "After 25 years of doing this kind of work, after hundreds of cases, I am well and truly baffled.
"When people drown they generally go down where they are. We normally find them within five to ten metres of where they went down even after a few days.
"This is the most baffling case that I have ever worked on. The police have nothing to go on. All they have is a mobile phone at the moment and they said it could possibly be a decoy."
