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Search Underway for Missing 19-Year-Old Off Ocean City, N.J.

Officials have withheld his name during the active search.

Overview

  • Authorities are searching off Ocean City near 10th Street after a 19-year-old vanished in the surf.
  • The Coast Guard reports two people were about 200 yards from shore on boogie boards when one lost his board and did not resurface after a wave.
  • Ocean City Beach Rescue pulled the companion from the water alive, and that person described the moments before the teenager disappeared.
  • Boat crews from Coast Guard Station Atlantic City and air crews from Air Station Atlantic City joined the operation.
  • The Coast Guard issued an Urgent Marine Information Broadcast, a radio alert that asks nearby boaters to watch for a person in the water.