A 21-YEAR-OLD man died after plunging 40ft into ice-cold waters at a disused quarry – 11 years after a Merseyside schoolboy drowned there.

Cameron McInnes fell into the water at Hillside Quarry, in West Lancashire, shortly before 3pm on Sunday, after a rope swing he was on snapped.

Underwater search teams recovered the body of the man, who is from Eccleston, near Chorley, and he was formally identified last night.

Family members were at the scene as divers brought the body out of the water near Parbold, Ormskirk.

Cameron, who worked at Ruttle Plant Hire, in Chorley, was with a group of four friends playing on a rope swing overhanging the deep, water-filled basin when the wooden handle he was holding on to snapped.

He fell into the water and did not re-emerge. Friends called the emergency services at about 2.50pm and a search began involving divers, mountain rescue experts and police.

It was called off when darkness fell but resumed yesterday morning and at 10.50am the body was located.

In 1999, Sam Fowler, 14, from Norris Green, drowned at the quarry when he got into difficulty while swimming in the 60-foot deep quarry.