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October 10th, 2011 
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Rescue crews scour Cottesloe Beach for missing Mosman Park man. Picture credit: Richard Polden
Source: PerthNow
Rescue crews scour Cottesloe Beach for missing Mosman Park man. Picture credit: Richard Polden
Source: PerthNow
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Police grave fears for a man who disappeared this morning while swimming at Cottesloe beach.
DIVERS have found the damaged bathers of a 64-year-old swimmer missing off Cottesloe beach on the ocean floor as hopes of finding the man alive fade.
The missing man is believed to be Bryn Martin, a successful businessman and proponent of a private port in Kwinana, PerthNow reported.
Duty patrol commander Neil Blair said the missing man’s wife confirmed the black Speedos were the type of swimmers her husband had worn.
“Fisheries experts have viewed the bathers and were of the opinion the damage is consistent with that a white pointer shark could cause,” he said tonight.
Mr Martin was last seen by a friend swimming out past the pylon in front of the Indiana Tea Rooms at about 8am on Monday morning. He was a couple of hundred metres offshore when he disappeared.
Swimmer and businessman
Mr Martin is the chief executive of James Point, a company appointed by the State government to build private port facilities in Kwinana.
According to the James Point website, he is the company’s chief executive and has spent several years in talks with the State Government to get the project underway.
A keen swimmer, Mr Martin has competed in the Rottnest Channel Swim and set the record for the oldest male duo swimmer in 2002.
Cottesloe beach closed
Police said it was too early to suggest a shark attack and that rescuers were exploring all options. Cottesloe beach, which was calm today with cloudy waters, has been closed.
Police Senior Sergeant Denise Grant said officers would continue searching the water until sundown, but held grave fears for the missing man’s safety.
“Given that this gentleman has been missing since 8.10am, Police are very concerned for the welfare of this man,” Sgt Grant said.
“Hopes are definitely fading that we will find him safe, however, we don’t give up hope and we will remain in the area, as will our Water Police, Police Air wing and ATV vehicles searching the beachfront until sundown.”
The search will continue tomorrow morning.
Police are yet to confirm reports the man has a heart condition and have not ruled out a shark attack.
The man’s wife raised the alarm at about 9.30am after he did not arrive for breakfast and the family conducted a search of the beach.
The Defence Force is assisting with the search using ATV vehicles, while water police and local surf lifesavers scour the ocean on boats and jet skis.
“He was swimming by himself at the time, however he was down at the beach with a friend,” Sgt Grant said.
“His friend was entering the water, he saw him and about 10 minutes later he couldn’t see him anymore.”
Sgt Grant said police would patrol the beach overnight and continue their search of the water at first light.
Cottesloe Surf Lifesaving have issued an email to members advising them that the missing man is not a member of the club.
Family and friends of the man are waiting anxiously under the Indiana Tea House.
A Surf Life Saving WA helicopter had not been monitoring Cottesloe Beach this morning as it does not fly during weekdays until mid-December.
Cottesloe Beach was closed in November last year after several sightings of a 2.5m shark that was attracted to baitfish in the area.
The shark was first spotted at 11am and again at 3.30pm on November 16. It came just a week after young tour guide Elyse Frankcom was bitten by a shark off Garden Island.
FATAL SHARK ATTACKS IN WA
September 4, 2011: Kyle Burden was killed while body boarding with friends at Bunker Bay, near Dunsborough, in Western Australia.
August 2010: Nicholas Edwards, 31, fatally mauled at Gracetown, near Margaret River.
December 2008: Port Kennedy fisherman Brian Guest, 51, taken by a giant white pointer while snorkelling for crabs in about 5m of water near his beachside home.
March 2005: A 6m white pointer killed boat skipper Geoffrey Brazier, 26, while he snorkelled off the Abrolhos Islands.
July 2004: Carpenter Brad Smith, 29, was attacked and killed by two sharks while surfing off Gracetown.
November 2000: Businessman Ken Crew, 48, was killed by a 4m white pointer in waist-deep water at North Cottesloe. In October 1997, Former St Kilda footballer Brian Sierakowski and friend Barney Hanrahan escaped injury when a 5m white pointer attacked their double surf-ski 150m off Cottesloe.
November 1925: Samuel Ettelton, 55, was fatally attacked by a tiger shark while floating on his back at Cottesloe Beach.
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