Dover Coastguard Watch Manager Colin Mulvana said: "The search
has now been on-going for over four hours and unfortunately as yet no
sign has been found of the missing swimmer.
"The search area is a fairly small one, just eight square miles,
which is calculated by taking into consideration a number of factors
including tides.
"The weather for searching this evening is very good with
west-south-westerly force 4-5 winds and excellent visibility."
The swimmer went missing when he was only a mile north of the Calais
Harbour entrance when the escort vessel ‘Lady Sarah’ lost sight of
him.
Coastguards hope that the Swiss man may have swam to the shore but
had not yet managed to contact anyone.
