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Sea Search Off Sandown After Reports Of Object In Water

A search of the water was launched after reports of an object being seen floating in the Sandown Pier area yesterday afternoon (Thursday).

HM Coastguard tasked multiple resources including Sandown and Shanklin Independent Lifeboat, Bembridge RNLI, Bembridge and Ventnor Coastguard Rescue Teams and a helicopter from Lee-on-Solent at around 4:30pm.

Reports suggested an object had been seen floating in the area with concerns that it may have been a person.

Teams continued their search for several hours in strong winds but with nothing found, efforts were stood down later in the evening.

The incident came just hours after a body was located in an earlier, separate, search in Freshwater Bay - as previously reported.

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