SEARCH ONGOING FOR PERSON BELIEVED TO BE MISSING IN BELFAST LOUGH
At 15:22 today Belfast Maritime Rescue
Coordination Centre received a call from the Police Service of Northern Ireland
(PSNI) reporting that a swimmer is believed to be missing off Bangor in Belfast
Lough.
The Coastguard are now coordinating a search of
the water and shoreline with the Bangor Coastguard Rescue Team, the RNLI All Weather
Lifeboat based at Donaghadee and the RNLI Inshore Lifeboat based at Bangor. The PSNI
helicopter, a fishery protection vessel and the Irish Coast Guard Rescue
Helicopter based in Dublin have also helped with the search.