British woman missing after hiring boat on paradise island – Bundlezy

British woman missing after hiring boat on paradise island

SPANISH police and coastguards have launched a major search operation for a British woman who vanished after hiring a boat on the paradise island of Formentera. The alarm was raised on Wednesday evening when she failed to return a 15-foot motor boat she had hired earlier in the day. The 39-year-old woman has been named locally as Mary Gavin. A Spanish Coastguard search and rescue helicopter called Helimer 222 took part in an operation launched yesterday with two coastguard vessels. One was mobilised from its base in Ibiza with the other instructed to comb the coastline off Formentera, the smallest of the inhabited Balearic Islands. Civil Guard officers are understood to be conducting a land search. The air, land and sea operation was expected to continue from first light today, although officials could not be reached early this morning for comment. The company the missing Brit hired the boat from has been named locally as Helix Charter Formentera. The vessel she is said to have left Formentera port La Salina in on Wednesday afternoon ?for a quick boat ride? has been described as a cream-coloured Quicksilver 475 Axess with a Mercury outboard motor.
The woman left the island of Formentera on a motor boat and did not return home

A search is underway for a British woman who failed to return after taking a hire boat out from the Balearic island of Formentera.

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