U.S. Coast Guard MH-65 File Photo
CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Coast Guard ended its search Tuesday for a 33-year-old man who went missing off Tybee Island, Georgia.
A Coast Guard Air Station Savannah MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew located a man in the water matching the missing swimmer’s description at 11:40 a.m.
A Coast Guard Station Tybee Island 45-foot Response Boat-Medium boat crew recovered the man and began life-saving procedures while en route to Station Tybee where EMS was waiting.
On Monday, Coast Guard Sector Charleston Command Center watchstanders were notified by Tybee Island Fire and Rescue of a missing male swimmer at 6:38 p.m. The man was last seen by his wife swimming off Tybee Island in a wet suit on a body board.
Coast Guard Air Station Savannah crews, a Coast Guard Auxiliary aircrew, Station Tybee boat crews, Tybee Island Fire and Rescue crews, Georgia Department of Natural Resources and local authorities assisted in the search.
