Swimmer in ‘distress' vanishes off Long Island shore, sparking frantic search
Rescue workers are frantically trying to locate a Long Island swimmer who vanished off the North Shore Monday night at sunset.
The unidentified individual was last seen in 'distress' at 7:49 p.m. at the Kings Park bluff near the Nissequogue River mouth by Smithtown Bay and the Long Island Sound.
'We don't know if he was swimming or in a kayak or something else. He was first noticed struggling in the water,' Suffolk County police said.
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Rescue workers continue searching for the swimmer.
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Dive teams, police dogs, and marine units were all searching the area last night in tandem with local volunteer fire departmentsa nd the US Coast Guard, officials said.
'We put some units in the water,' Kings Park Fire Department Chief Philip Carroll told News 12. 'We had Northport and Bay Shore fire departments assist us with their dive teams, and we were unable to locate the individual.'
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The swimmer went missing close to where the mouth of the Nissequogue River meets the Long Island Sound and Smithtown Bay.
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Police and other officials had resumed the search Tuesday.
The news comes about three weeks after 29-year-old Petros Krommidas, a Democrat vying for a position on the Nassau County Board of Legislators, went missing off the coast of Long Beach in late April, prompting a search party of nearly 100 people.
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