Police have recovered the body of a 54-year-old man who was reported missing on Monday after going snorkelling off the Wyndham Reef Resort in East End.
The body was found on the shore, off Queen’s Highway, shortly before 8am Tuesday morning, police said.
A search for the man, who was from the United States, had been launched on Monday afternoon, after police received a report of a missing person around 4pm.
“It was reported that a man had gone out snorkeling a few hours earlier in the waters in the vicinity of the Wyndham Reef Resort, off Austin Connolly Drive, but had not been seen since,” the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service said in a statement.
Cayman Islands Coast Guard vessels and the RCIPS helicopter were deployed to conduct searches of the water nearby, while police officers and members of the public searched on land and along the shoreline.
Visiting members of the UK’s Royal National Lifeboat Institution, who are in Cayman to take part in Maritime Search And Rescue (MSAR) training with the Cayman Islands Coast Guard, assisted with the searches at sea and the overall coordination of search efforts, the RCIPS said.
The searches continued until just before 7pm Monday and resumed at 5am Tuesday.
According to police, the man was found unresponsive on the shore about three hours after the morning’s search began. Emergency services attended the scene and he was subsequently pronounced dead.
Police said the matter is under investigation.
This is the fourth water-related death this year.
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