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Dylan Cecil: Sonar team fails to find body off Burnham coast | |
(40 minutes later) | |
A specialist rescue team using sonar equipment and an underwater robot has failed to find the body of Dylan Cecil. | |
The four-year-old boy has been missing since he fell from the jetty at Burnham-on-Sea on Sunday evening, prompting a large search operation. | |
UK rescue organisation SARbot has spent a day scouring the water but was unable to find anything significant. | |
The charity's attempt comes after coastguards called off their search on Monday afternoon. | |
Duncan Winsbury, chief executive of SARbot, said: "We've just completed the search and have searched the whole bay and we've not found anything. | |
'No false hope' | |
"We believe that the currents may have taken him right out to sea now, he's certainly not in the bay. | |
"The police, the coastguard and the RNLI think that we have searched much more than they could have expected to have been searched and more thoroughly. | |
"We don't give people false hope, but we like to give people hope where we can. | |
"Unfortunately in this case, it's the old saying 'We can't find what is not there'." | |
Dylan, from Kettering, Northamptonshire, had been staying in Burnham with his grandparents. | Dylan, from Kettering, Northamptonshire, had been staying in Burnham with his grandparents. |
He fell into the sea when he and his parents were walking near the shore. | He fell into the sea when he and his parents were walking near the shore. |
His mother and father jumped in to rescue him and had to be pulled to safety. | His mother and father jumped in to rescue him and had to be pulled to safety. |
A huge search involving the coastguard, police and helicopters was mounted to rescue Dylan but the operation was called off on Monday. | A huge search involving the coastguard, police and helicopters was mounted to rescue Dylan but the operation was called off on Monday. |
However, volunteers continued to scour the area on Tuesday. | However, volunteers continued to scour the area on Tuesday. |