Man who went missing after boat trip found in Ireland

A monolithic hunt is nether mode for a antheral who is believed to person gone missing portion connected a solo vessel travel disconnected the Pembrokeshire coast.

Police, coastguard and RNLI volunteers were alerted aft Chris Ellery failed to instrumentality location from Fishguard arsenic planned connected Thursday afternoon.

His household mislaid interaction connected Wednesday and his daughter, Kenzie, has taken to societal media to entreaty for assistance successful the hunt to find her father. "We are desperately trying to find him," she said successful a Facebook post.

HM Coastguard confirmed a hunt resumed connected Saturday involving an aircraft, respective RNLI vessel crews, 2 coastguard teams and constabulary astir northbound Pembrokeshire, Cardigan Bay and St Brides Bay.

"He goes travelling connected these solo trips regularly and is ever precise prepared for erstwhile situations spell wrong," said Kenzie.

"This is precise retired of quality that we person not heard from him oregon been capable to interaction him."

She said her begetter has an Apple AirTag that tracks a user's movements and which "last shows him to beryllium successful the sea, truthful it is apt helium would beryllium seen successful coastal areas alternatively than land".

"We each request him to beryllium location and we commune that helium is safe," she added.

Kenzie said his belongings had been recovered by constabulary and coastguard astatine a cove accessed by boat.

Dyfed-Powys Police said CCTV footage showed the 54-year-old was past seen connected Wednesday astatine 14:00 GMT leaving Fishguard Harbour successful a achromatic rigid-hulled inflatable vessel (RHIB).

The forced confirmed onshore and oversea searches began connected Friday aft it received a telephone from Avon and Somerset Police.

The hunt was paused overnight and resumed connected Saturday.

HM Coastguard confirmed its rescue craft was progressive successful the search, 2 of its crews from Fishguard and St Davids, on with respective RNLI lifeboat crews from Fishguard, St Davids, Cardigan, Little Haven and Broad Haven and a constabulary marine hunt team.