A SAILOR was found dead after a late-night search.
The man went missing just before midnight on Wednesday off the shore at Studland near Swanage.
Dorset Police assisted Coastguard rescue teams from Poole and Swanage to search. A spokesman for the Portland Coastguard said: “We received a 999 call at 11.45pm from a member of a yacht crew on Studland. One of the crew had taken one half of the crew back to yacht on a tender. He was coming back to pick up the rest of them.
“They heard the engine but he never came.”
Rescuers searched for three-hours and a body was recovered.
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