{"id":63488,"date":"2026-10-25T19:20:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T19:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/body-found-in-search-for-man-who-fell-overboard-from-ferry\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T19:20:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T19:20:43","slug":"body-found-in-search-for-man-who-fell-overboard-from-ferry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/body-found-in-search-for-man-who-fell-overboard-from-ferry\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in search for man who fell overboard from ferry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b>The body of a missing ferry passenger who fell overboard has been found on a beach in North Ayrshire.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">HM Coastguard responded to a report of a man going overboard from the MV Caledonian Isles near Arran about 20:30 on Sunday 18 October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The man was later named as 82-year-old Jim Wither, who was reported missing from Johnstone, Renfrewshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police Scotland earlier received a report that the body of a man had been found in the Largs beach area on Sunday. Formal identification has yet to take place, but the family of Jim Wither has been informed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two helicopters, a coastguard aircraft, Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) lifeboats and rescue teams from the surrounding area were sent to find the passenger, but the search was called off at 16:55 on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officers said the death was not being treated as suspicious and a report would be submitted to the procurator fiscal in due course.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cm4g1394e3kvo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The body of a missing ferry passenger who fell overboard has been found on a beach in North Ayrshire. HM Coastguard responded to a report of a man going overboard from the MV Caledonian Isles near Arran about 20:30 on Sunday 18 October. The man was later named as 82-year-old Jim Wither, who was reported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[942,1411,1353,417,11430,376],"class_list":["post-63488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-body","tag-fell","tag-ferry","tag-man","tag-overboard","tag-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63490,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63488\/revisions\/63490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}