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Thursday, 4:30 PM
From the City & Region staff at The Boston Globe
Coast Guard searching for missing swimmer
By Elizabeth Ratto, Globe Correspondent
The Coast Guard says it plans to search through the night for a man who went missing in the water near Gallops Island around 6 p.m. tonight.
The man was part of a group of four who went swimming from
their sailboat and drifted away from it. One person made it back to the boat, one swam to the nearby rocks, and another was recovered by the marine assistance service Sea Tow.
The Coast Guard, as well as crews from the State Police, Environmental Police and Boston Fire Department initiated their search at 6:20 p.m., and a "first light" helicopter search was scheduled for this morning.
