Overview
- The motorboat overturned around 13:00 on the holiday, leaving a 63-year-old missing and his 12-year-old grandson rescued with minor injuries and taken to a hospital.
- Police, fire brigade, emergency services and water rescue units responded from Saxony and Brandenburg with support from a helicopter, a drone and several rescue boats.
- Surface searches were halted after nightfall on Wednesday and resumed Thursday morning at about 08:00 with dive teams.
- Divers brought in from Dresden repeatedly searched deeper areas without result, and the recovered vessel is identified as an Ibis-type motorboat.
- Kriminalpolizei and water police have opened investigations into why the boat capsized, with reporting noting that single-digit water temperatures severely limit survival time.