Callout details: bankside search for missing man in Bath.
03 ASC Log no. 084 ASSAR was contacted by Avon & Somerset Police Force Incident Manager at 05.00 concerning reports of a a male who was in the water of the River Avon, near a Sainsbury store in Bath. ASSAR called out its water trained members at 05.30 for a bankside search. Two search parties were deployed along the bank to assist the other resources on scene; Fire & Rescue, police, paramedics and an RAF Search & Rescue helicopter. As nothing could be found through the bankside searches the team was stood down at 09.52. The police underwater unit discovered a body and removed it from the river at noon.