Search continues on Lake Erie for Elms graduate
By Beacon Journal staff
POSTED: 02:34 p.m. EDT, Jul 09, 2010
The U.S. Coast Guard continues its search on Lake Erie of Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland for a woman missing since Thursday night.
The Coast Guard says Emma Nahas, 21, a graduate of Our Lady of the Elms High School in Akron, was last seen wearing an orange bathing suit.
The guard was notified around 8:30 p.m. by the Cleveland Police Department who had received a 911-call from a boat on Lake Erie that one of its passengers was missing.
The guard said those aboard the boat indicated Nahas drifted away while swimming in the lake about 2 to 3 miles north of 55th Street in downtown Cleveland. Reports indicate she was not wearing a lifejacket.
The Coast Guard initially dispatched a 41-foot utility boat from its station in Cleveland Harbor and a rescue helicopter from Detroit.
The Coast Guard said the search continued Friday afternoon utilizing both boats and helicopters. Boats from the Cleveland Police Department, the Cleveland Fire Department and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources is assisted in the search on Friday.
Although federal regulations ''require that mariners merely maintain personal flotation devices onboard their vessels,'' the Coast Guard urges all passengers to wear life jackets at all times.
The U.S. Coast Guard continues its search on Lake Erie of Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland for a woman missing since Thursday night.
The Coast Guard says Emma Nahas, 21, a graduate of Our Lady of the Elms High School in Akron, was last seen wearing an orange bathing suit.
The guard was notified around 8:30 p.m. by the Cleveland Police Department who had received a 911-call from a boat on Lake Erie that one of its passengers was missing.
The guard said those aboard the boat indicated Nahas drifted away while swimming in the lake about 2 to 3 miles north of 55th Street in downtown Cleveland. Reports indicate she was not wearing a lifejacket.
The Coast Guard initially dispatched a 41-foot utility boat from its station in Cleveland Harbor and a rescue helicopter from Detroit.
The Coast Guard said the search continued Friday afternoon utilizing both boats and helicopters. Boats from the Cleveland Police Department, the Cleveland Fire Department and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources is assisted in the search on Friday.
Although federal regulations ''require that mariners merely maintain personal flotation devices onboard their vessels,'' the Coast Guard urges all passengers to wear life jackets at all times.
Emma and I were good friends at one point. It was Emma, Jess, and I. The trio in highschool. We were all three very close. This honestly does not seem real at all. I want to join the search for her. They need to find her. I admit the last 4 years we haven't talked but she moved away and there was no way to stay in contact. People change, but at one point we were close, and I wish that the search would end with finding her and she is okay.
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