Woman Goes Missing From a Condor Ferry, Search is Ended

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency have ended the search for a female passenger thought to have fallen off a ferry in the English Channel.

The Condor Rapide was en route from the Channel Island of Guernsey to Poole in Dorset when the alarm was raised on Sunday. An extensive air and sea search of the area concluded after about five hours, and the woman’s family was notified by Condor Ferries.

Coastguard rescue helicopters from Portland and La Hague, lifeboats from Weymouth and Alderney, Channel Islands Air Search and the French Coastguard were all involved in the search, reports BBC. The water temperature became the deciding factor in calling off the search.

Passengers on board the ferry, which operates between Guernsey, Jersey and Dorset, were also asked to search for the woman. The missing woman, Sarah Fenton, was last seen by her husband.