UPDATE: Body Of Missing Swimmer Recovered Thursday Afternoon

Mr. Kim’s body was recovered from the ocean waters off the Ocean Vista Resort on Montauk Highway in Amagansett on Thursday, Town Police said in a press release Thursday afternoon.

Mr. Kim’s body was removed to the Suffolk County Medical Examiner’s Office, where a final cause of death will be determined, police said in the release.

East Hampton Town Police on Wednesday evening identified the swimmer missing since Tuesday off Amagansett as Byron Dong Ha Kim of Brooklyn, but said they will dial back the search effort some 30 hours after he disappeared beneath the waves while swimming with a friend.

At the end of the day on Wednesday, police issued a statement to media outlets that they were halting the search efforts for Mr. Kim.

After searching for several hours with teams of scuba divers and lifeguards and aircraft from the Coast Guard on Tuesday afternoon, and again through most of the day on Wednesday, the search will now be left to patrolling the shoreline of eastern Amagansett in hopes of finding the man’s body.

The search for the missing swimmer was suspended at sundown and will resume tomorrow morning.

East Hampton Town Marine Patrol officers will patrol the beaches overnight and the the East Hampton Town Police Department’s dive team, the East Hampton Volunteer Ocean Rescue squad, town lifeguards and the U.S. Coast Guard will resume the search at 6 a.m. on Wednesday.

Police have not identified the missing man other than to say that he is a 23-year old New York City resident.

Just under a month ago, another New York City man drowned just a few miles away while swimming in Fort Pond in Montauk. The police dive team was able to locate the body of Jeffrey Gantt on the bottom of the pond using “side-scan” sonar.

East Hampton Volunteer Ocean Rescue, police and the U.S. Coast Guard are searching in the ocean off Napeague for a missing swimmer.

Ocean Rescue lifeguards on jetskis, scuba divers from the East Hampton Town Police Department and a Coast Guard helicopter were searching the surf between Napeague State Park and Hither Hills on Tuesday afternoon, after swimmer was reported to have vanished beneath the waves near the Windward Shores Ocean Resort shortly after noon.

East Hampton Town Police said the missing person is a 23-year old man from New York City who was swimming with a friend when witnesses said both began “struggling.”

The second man was pulled from the ocean unconscious but was revived and taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital by ambulance to be evaluated.

The ocean is moderately rough in the wake of Monday nights strong storms and all East Hampton beaches are under a high rip current alert.

Ocean Rescue crews reported to the pilots of the Coast Guard helicopter that there is a strong easterly “sweep,” or current paralleling the shore, in the area near the beach, and that the search area was being expanded about 400 yards to the east of where the man was last seen in the water.