Police, beachgoers search waters off Port Stanley beach for missing swimmer
CBC
Emergency crews and members of the public were combing the shore of Port Stanley's main beach on Sunday for a swimmer who went into the water and didn't resurface.
Few details have been made public, but in a post on social media, Ontario Provincial Police advised of an increased police presence on the beach, including their air and marine units.
"A swimmer entered the water and did not resurface. An extensive search is ongoing. Updates to be provided when available," the post reads.
In a subsequent email, OPP Cst. Jeff Hare said the swimmer was a teenager, and that multiple resources were assisting in the search.
Few other details were available.
Lise Barakat was enjoying a day at the beach with her family when she says lifeguards began swarming the pier on the eastern end of the beach.
"I thought it was multiple people in the distress, (that) they'd gotten on the wrong side of the caution buoys, too close to the pier... and all the other allied agencies showed up," she said just after 5 p.m.
"We've not seen anybody being brought in, there's been no CPR, no action taken on anybody who's been brought out of the water."
Several dozen beachgoers linked arms to form a human chain, Barakat's husband among them. A number of people involved were doing so without life jackets, meaning the chain can only get so far out, she said.
"They've been at it for two-and-a-half hours... Some people have come out just exhausted from the huge waves beating them down."
"We have young children. So he's taking this quite hard, and he's probably dehydrated and a bit of sunstroke by now."
Someone who appeared to be the teen's mother was visibly distraught, and was taken under the care of paramedics, she said.
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