The search for the missing foreigner was conducted yesterday Tuesday (06.06) by Coast Guard vessels and an Air Force helicopter following the distress signals they had received earlier.

After an investigation, the only passenger of the sailboat was found unconscious at sea.

“Yesterday morning, the port authorities of Lemnos, Mytilini, Skyros, Kimi and Chios were informed by the Hellenic Coast Guard Joint Search and Rescue Coordination Center of the transmission of distress signals by radio beacon from an I / F vessel flying the Greek flag in the sea area to southeast of Lemnos with a 69 year old foreigner on board.

The investigation was immediately started by two patrol boats LS-EL.AKT and a lifeboat LS-EL.AKT. and passing ships. From the ground patrol cars L.S. – EL.ACT., at the same time, a Coast Guard helicopter and an Air Force helicopter took off.

The above I/F was spotted by the LS-EL.AKT patrol boat. without passengers, in the sea area 18 m.m. south of Lemnos, from where he was safely delivered to the port of Agios Efstratiou. Yesterday afternoon, a 69-year-old man was seen in a sea area 16 nautical miles away. south of Lemnos by LS-EL.AKT helicopter. and unconscious, wearing an orange life jacket, was picked up by an LS-EL AKT lifeboat, which took him to the port of Myrina, Lemnos. He was then picked up by an EKAB ambulance and taken to Lemnos General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The Mirina Port Authority, which is conducting a preliminary investigation, has ordered an autopsy.”