09/15/2016 - PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS (PLYMOUTH COUNTY) - On the afternoon of Wednesday, September 14, 2016 the Plymouth and Bourne Fire Department's responded to 185 Herring Pond Road in Plymouth for a report of a person in the water. Search operations had to be discontinued due to poor weather conditions, and nightfall setting in. The search was set to resume on Thursday, with assets from the Plymouth County Technical Rescue Team, Plymouth Fire Dive Team, Massachusetts State Police Underwater Recovery Team, Massachusetts Environmental Police, Plymouth Harbormaster, Bourne Fire Department, State Rehab Unit, Providence Canteen and several other agencies. At 0630 hours on Thursday, operations resumed with the Plymouth Fire Department and Plymouth County Technical Rescue Team utilizing tow bar operations in the area that the missing person was last seen. Massachusetts Environmental Police and the Massachusetts State Police utilized highly technical sonar equipment to assist in the search. The missing 26-year old Cedarville man was recovered by a Plymouth County Technical Rescue Team diver around 1530 hours that afternoon in approximately 25-feet of water, 200-feet from the shoreline. The man reportedly went for a swim off a boat with two friends, became distressed, and did not resurface. The boat reportedly drifted from the swimmers, and eventually ran aground.
