Search For Castro And Janet Still Ongoing: Marine Police Assure Public

•     Collaboration

The department collaborated with the Ghana Navy and the Ghana Air Force to engage in an extensive search across the breadth of the estuary using speedboats and helicopters . The department also deployed all its rescue apparatus, such as buoyancy aids, which included life-saving jackets, buoy, and diving equipment, for the search mission. The Marine Police Unit also deployed some personnel to patrol the shoreline from Ada Foah to the estuary to assist in the search mission.

•     Wireless message

The Tema Regional Police Command also sent out wireless messages to all police districts along the coast of the Greater Accra and the Volta regions to be on the lookout for the victims. The Marine Police Department further met with local canoe operators along those coastal areas, informed them of the incident and requested them to assist the search team in the operations.

•     Police investigations

Police investigations revealed that about 11.30 a.m. on July 6, 2014, Castro went to the management of Aqua Safari, a popular resort, and rented a jet ski for a ride time of 30 minutes. The management provided him with a type C buoyancy suit [life jacket], a device intended to be worn by a person in a racing cockpit where the wearer is restrained in the cockpit and other supplemental life support systems requiring life jacket accommodation are present. He then left to pick a lady by name Janet Bandu at the Peace Holiday Resort, also located at the shoreline of Big Ada. The two then took a ride towards the Charley Korpe Beach. The management of Aqua Safari decided to track the movement of the vessel at 12.30 p.m., as the vessel and its occupants were not returning. It was then that they gathered from the tracker that the jet ski was no longer underway and was lying somewhere near the estuary.

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