Coast Guard searching for missing swimmer at Shore

Coast Guard searching for missing swimmer at Shore
by The Star-Ledger Continuous News Desk
Sunday September 07, 2008, 7:00 PM
U.S. Coast Guard and local authorities were searching today for a missing swimmer near Spring Lake Beach in Monmouth County.

The Coast Guard received a call about 5:05 p.m. reporting two 40-year-old swimmers were caught in a rip tide. One swimmer was recovered by locals unconscious and given cardiopulmonary resuscitation and transferred to emergency medical personnel for treatment.

Two rescue boat crews from Coast Guard Station Manasquan Inlet, a rescue helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City, and members of the Spring Lake Police Department and Beach Patrol were searching for the second swimmer, identified only as a man.

The Coast Guard issued a reminder for boaters, surfers and swimmers to exercise extreme caution returning to the water in the days following Tropical Storm Hanna's landfall.