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'Missing' ferry passenger search Search ends for ferry passenger
(about 1 hour later)
Holyhead coastguards are conducting a wide-ranging search after a passenger apparently went missing from a ferry. A search has been called off for a passenger feared missing in the Irish Sea after failing to disembark from a Liverpool to Dublin ferry.
The ferry was travelling from Liverpool to Dublin when coastguards were alerted and began searching at about 0730 BST. The alarm was raised shortly before midnight on Friday when the Liverpool Viking docked in Dublin with some of the missing man's belongings onboard.
A spokesman said they were hunting over a large area in poor visibility. A helicopter from RAF Valley on Anglesey is assisting with the search. CCTV footage from the ferry did not show the passenger leaving in Dublin.
No details of which ferry is involved or any information about the missing person have been released. Holyhead and Dublin coastguards, an RAF Valley helicopter and an Irish rescue helicopter all took part in the search.
Coastguards said they could not be certain the man did not leave the ferry but he did not appear on the CCTV footage.
The search called off at 1200 BST for this reason.
It began at 0730 BST in poor visibility and was carried out over a wide area.
However coastguards added with current sea temperatures, no-one could survive in the water for that length of time.
An investigation into the whereabouts of the missing man is being co-ordinated by police in Dublin.