A 17-YEAR-OLD-BOY went missing from an Ocean City beach around 4 pm on Wednesday August 4, 2021.
It was reported that the body of the missing boy was then discovered the following day.
Less than 24 hours after disappearing in the water, authorities found the body of the 17-year-old swimmer who got swept away in a rip current.
The body was found near 13th street after disappearing at 112th street.
The name of the minor has not been released yet but it was reported that he is from the Annapolis area.
“We came out of the water we saw our lifeguard was out of the stand and rushed down here and there was a butch of other people here and soon after like 50 lifeguards were searching for the kid,” witnesses Philip Lundbad told 47ABC.
Caleb Brown, adding “We were right there it could have been us any of us we were fortunate we fought against it.”
It is still unknown what the cause of death is but it has been assumed that the boy died after being swept away.
Once the body was found, it was sent off to Baltimore for an autopsy to determine what the cause of death was.
“Lifeguards spotted an object in the ocean, once they reached it, it turned out to be the teenager’s body,” an Ocean City Fire Department spokesman said.
The teenager was with three other swimmers who were fortunately able to get out of the water after struggling to swim.
Along with powerful rip currents, Ocean City also experienced shark attacks on their beaches.
It was reported on August 5, 2021 that a Pennsylvania girl who was on vacation with her family got bit by a shark and had to have 42 stitches.
It was later determined that 12-year-old Jordan Prushinski was bitten by a small Sandbar shark that is native to the area.
Captain Butch Arbin of the Ocean City Beach Patrol told Baltimore CBS that while the Sandbar shark is classified as a shark, this was not considered a shark attack.
“This is not a shark attack. It’s not anything to be concerned about. This type of shark, sandbar shark, is not an aggressive type of shark. They see very little interaction with humans,” Arbin said.
“It’s never happened before in Maryland history. It’s never happened in Ocean City,” Arbin continued.
Prushinski’s case was classified as a shark bite and not a shark attack because the Sandbar shark did not hold her down in an attempt to feed.
