Westport CT– Missing Kayaker
(Westport, CT) At approximately 11:55 a.m. on this date, the Westport Police Department’s Communications Center received a 911 call from a concerned citizen regarding a kayaker possibly in distress. The caller reported that she observed a yellow kayak in the water and that a person appeared to be clinging to it. The area where the kayak was spotted was the waters off of Soundview Avenue. Officers were immediately dispatched to the area, and the first one on scene reported that he had located a yellow kayak washed up on the beach. Concerned that the vessel’s operator was still in Long Island Sound, the Westport Police Marine Unit was activated. Additionally, the United States Coast Guard and the Department of Energy…