Overview
- A resident reported hearing a person yelling and earlier saw a man with a dog in a small Zodiac-style boat on Chickawaukie Pond.
- Responders later found the unmanned boat circling near the Rockport shore with the dog still aboard.
- Firefighters from Rockland and Rockport boarded the vessel, shut off the engine, recovered the dog, and did not find the boat operator.
- The Maine Warden Service has closed the pond and deployed its dive team along with sonar, a drone, and shoreline search teams as the multi-agency search continues into the night.
- The pond’s size, 31-foot maximum depth, and roughly 60-degree water temperature complicate dive operations, and authorities have asked the public to avoid the launch and to contact local police with any information.