Police have released the name of an American man who drowned while diving off the Kaikoura coast on Saturday evening.
He was 32-year-old Vincent He.
Mr He was working in Christchurch as a volunteer for charity Habitat for Humanity, a police spokeswoman said.
He had been diving with friends near the Omihi camping ground, 15 minutes south of Kaikoura, when he left them to search for paua on a rocky shelf.
But when the friends returned by boat to where they had last seen him, there was no sign of the US visitor, who had been in the country for only a fortnight.
