Ok so this is the latest 411 on the drowning. Corroborated by two Rockport Policemen. 23 year old Korean National college student visiting Rockport with a crew of fellow international college students from many different countries. His friends didn’t report him missing immediately because they thought he went to get some food. At around 6PM I was sitting on the beach and noticed the Rockport Harbor Master boat patrolling in a back and forth search pattern. I also noticed two cops standing on the railing over looking the beach. I mentioned to two ladies sitting next to me that the Harbor Master boat patrolling like that was unusual, in fact I hadn’t seen that in my two years here. I heard the guy standing on the bow of the boat say “There it is”. He jumped off the bow into about 3-4 feet of waist deep water between the raft and the shore and grabbed something. At that point 4 policemen came on the beach and cleared the beach. So I moved up to the railing. i then overheard one of the policemen radio in and say “Contact the medical examiner’s office”. The fellow in the water dragged the body so that it was on the far side of the boat away from the beach. i could see the two people on the boat pull the body onto the boat. Then the boat sped off towards Granite Pier. That is the point I took this photograph.
Good Morning Gloucester 
very sad
LikeLike
When was this? Awful…….
LikeLike
So here is an update on the drowning from my friend Tana Martha Esther Pesso: “The policeman spotted the poor boy from my deck and was so upset about it. The poor young man was part of a foreign exchange school group here on an outing. Lots…of kids who didn’t speak each other’s language. One boy swam out to the raft. …A bit later, another said he would try. The kids were talking and distracted. The school hadn’t enforced a buddy swimming rule. When the first boy returned from the raft, the others asked where the second one was. The swimmer hadn’t ever seen him, and, of course, he hadn’t known to look because the second boy decided to follow after he had left. That was the point when the 3 hour search began. Poor poor boy and his family and friends. :-(“
LikeLike