At 12:15 p.m. on Sunday, four swimmers were identified by an anchored boat roughly 200 yards off the shore from Centennial Park in Coronado.
According to the Harbor Police Department, an onlooker on the shore noticed one of the four swimmers go under the water yelling for help and did not come back up.
Harbor PD’s Public Information Officer Sergeant Jose Torres said that they got a transfer call from Coronado Police Department informing them of the incident. Harbor police responded alongside Coronado lifeguards looking for the swimmer who onlookers identified as an adult, black male.
Around 15 minutes later, the San Diego Police Department deployed one of four Air Support Unit helicopters, “ABLE” (Air Borne Law Enforcement), to aid in the search and rescue.
After an hour of searching, at 1:15 p.m. the active rescue turned into a recovery mission.
The police were able to recover a body an hour later at 2:25 p.m.
The investigation is still ongoing by Harbor PD.
