Search Ongoing in Belfast Lough After Reports Man Fell Overboard From Ferry

30th October 2022

File image of the shore of Belfast Lough west of Bangor Credit: Albert Bridge/Geograph

RTÉ News reports that searches are ongoing in Belfast Lough today (Sunday 30 October) after claims that a man fell overboard from a docked ferry on Saturday night.

The PSNI has asked the public to avoid the area as a multi-agency response involving coastguard rescue teams from Northern Ireland and western Scotland and RNLI lifeboats resumed searching this morning.

According to the Belfast Telegraph, a rescue plane was dispatched this morning to search an area of interest, with searches focused on the area of Belfast Lough between Greenisland on the northern shore and Bangor on the southern side.

Published in Belfast Lough, Northern Ireland Waters, Ferry

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