{"id":37843,"date":"2014-01-16T02:36:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T02:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=9e188ae974ca70bf491ed14a075a55e4"},"modified":"2014-01-16T02:36:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T02:36:00","slug":"press-release-search-for-man-spotted-in-the-sea-off-south-shields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=37843","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Search for man spotted in the sea off South Shields"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Humber Coastguard has been coordinating a search for a man seen walking in the sea near to Marsden Grotto, South Shields.<\/p>\n<p>A fisherman called 999 and spoke to Humber Coastguard just before 11pm last night, reporting that a man was in the water. He soon disappeared from view.<\/p>\n<p>The Sunderland Coastguard Rescue Team, the 2 <abbr title=\"Royal National Lifeboat Institution\">RNLI<\/abbr> lifeboats from Tynemouth were sent to the scene, along with the police helicopter and the search and rescue helicopter from <abbr title=\"Royal Air Force\">RAF<\/abbr> Boulmer.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the extensive search, nothing has yet been found. Conditions on scene are said to be good, with light winds and clear visibility.<\/p>\n<p>Fran Wilkins, Watch Manager at Humber Coastguard, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We\u2019ve had rescue units on scene and carrying out a thorough search for almost 3 hours, but unfortunately we have not located this man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Units have now been stood down. We will assess the situation later on this morning to decide the next best course of action.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"contact\" id=\"contact_1507\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Maritime and Coastguard Agency Press Office<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Press enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              023 8032 9401\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Search operation for man in sea near Marsden Grotto, South Shields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}