It was his wife who reported him missing Sunday afternoon around 3 p.m.

Her spouse had taken advantage of the high tides to go fishing on foot, in the morning, in the Damgan sector, in the south of the Morbihan department.

The regional operational center for surveillance and rescue (Cross) of Etel and the gendarmerie then deploy significant resources, including a helicopter, to find this 79-year-old man.

Unfortunately, an hour later, rescuers saw the silhouette of the victim in the water, near the rocks, reports the maritime prefecture of the Atlantic.

The first attempts at resuscitation yielded nothing, no more than those made by the Smur team landed in a helicopter.

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