Person found on Puck Bay a day after large-scale search was suspended
Poland's Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre received a report at 12:54 pm today concerning a person found in the Rybitwia Mielizna area of Puck Bay, between Osłonino and Kuźnica. The rescue boat R-49 of the Maritime Search and Rescue Service was dispatched to the scene, and its crew secured the person found. The report came a day after the suspension of the large-scale search for the second of two jet ski users missing on these waters.
In brief
The Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre received a report at 12:54 of a person found in the area of Rybitwia Mielizna on the Bay of Puck, between Osłonino and Kuźnica. The crew of the R-49 rescue boat of the Maritime Search and Rescue Service secured the person found and is cooperating with the Police and the prosecutor's office, which are conducting further proceedings. The report came a day after the suspension of the search, lasting 21 hours and 51 minutes, for the second of two personal watercraft users missing on that body of water. The services did not disclose the identity or condition of the person found and did not confirm a link between the report and the concluded search.
As the Maritime Search and Rescue Service announced, after reaching the scene the rescuers secured the person and are now cooperating with the police and the prosecutor's office, which are conducting further procedures. The services have not so far released any information on the identity or condition of the person found.
The area of yesterday's search
The location of today's report lies within the area that sea, air and land units were still combing yesterday. The search for two men who had set out on a jet ski from the Osłonino area began late on Tuesday evening, after an alert received at 9:39 pm. The first of them was found at dawn on a sandbank in the middle of the bay by the crew of an Anakonda helicopter of the Gdynia Naval Aviation Brigade and handed over to medics. Despite operations conducted from the water, the air and the shore for 21 hours and 51 minutes, the second man was not found - the active search was suspended on Wednesday at 7:30 pm as darkness fell.
The services have not yet officially confirmed whether today's report is connected with the search concluded yesterday. We covered the course of the Puck Bay operation in a separate article.
Source: Gazeta Morska · Compiled by: Michał Iwański
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