Pedalo rider drowns in Ayia Napa

 

A 21-year-old British tourist drowned yesterday after he and three friends were tossed from a hired pedalo in choppy seas off Ayia Napa’s popular Nissi Beach.

Sean Williams had been missing for three hours when a professional diver found his body on the sea bottom near sunset yesterday.

Sean and three other young Britons holidaying in the resort had taken the pedal boat out about 150 metres from the beach at around 4pm when the sea suddenly turned rough. The vessel overturned, throwing Sean and the three other men into the sea. The three managed to swim ashore, but Sean never made it.

The survivors raised the alarm and police launched a search for the missing man, with coastguard vessels and a helicopter. Private boats also joined in the search, while divers searched below the waves.

A diver eventually found Sean’s body at around 7pm and pulled it ashore with the hep of other divers.

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