Missing Selsey swimmer ‘keen to finish his swim’
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A FULL-SCALE rescue mission was launched on Sunday (September 6) after a swimmer was reported missing off Selsey’s coastline.
A wife raised the alarm around 3.15pm after becoming concerned her husband should have returned an hour before.
Both Selsey lifeboats, a rescue helicopter, coastguards and both Littlehampton lifeboats joined the search for the man, in his 50s, who entered the water 200-300 west of the lifeboat station.
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