New Zealand / Bay Of Plenty

Lake Rotoiti search for missing man continues

10:32 am on 8 January 2017

A dive squad is out again for the third day looking for the body of a 48-year-old man whose lifejacket came off when he jumped from his boat on Lake Rotoiti near Rotorua.

A dive squad is searching Lake Rotoiti for the third day. Photo: Ross Fowler

Police were called to the area on Thursday afternoon after the man failed to resurface.

The navy was brought in yesterday to help in the search but there has still been no sign of him.