Following the accident, a final two-hour search was conducted in the Bay of Cannes on Sunday, August 23, 2026. A week earlier, a search operation had been launched to find a young man who went missing in a collision between two boats.
Around 1 p.m., rescue services were mobilized on Sunday, August 23. Witnesses reported what could be a body, off the shore of Midi beach in Cannes-La-Bocca. The maritime prefecture deployed six ground vehicles, ten firefighters including a team specialized in aquatic rescue, a rescue ship and the Dragon 06 helicopter.
A final operation deployed
Rescuers meticulously swept the area and surroundings of Louise-Moreau Boulevard. From Cannes to Théoule-sur-Mer and Aiguille Point, the search lasted more than two hours. It was at 3:40 p.m. that the Regional Operational Center for Surveillance and Rescue in the Mediterranean (Cross Med) ordered the operation to be called off, according to SDIS 06.
No body was found, and authorities then confirmed that no connection could be established with the disappearance that occurred the previous week. On Monday, August 17, rescue operations took place following the collision between the two boats in Mandelieu-la-Napoule. Resulting in 10 injured, a 24-year-old young man was ejected from the boat and then went missing at sea on Sunday, August 16 at 11 p.m.
A young man still reported missing
Search operations were immediately deployed. A helicopter and boats from the SNSM and SDIS attempted to find him. The investigations from Monday, August 17 in the morning were interrupted at 11 a.m. by the maritime prefecture of the Mediterranean. The young man still has not been found.
A judicial investigation is still underway. Under the authority of the maritime court of Marseille, it must determine the exact causes of this tragedy. The departmental gendarmerie of the Alpes-Maritimes, the gendarmerie of the Mediterranean and the Coastal Naval Brigade of Antibes are also collaborating to this end.
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