Rescue teams were still scouring the waters off Ocean City, N.J., on Monday night after a swimmer went missing near the 10th Street Beach around 5 p.m., and officials said the search remained active as crews worked through the evening.

The Ocean City Fire and Police Departments responded at 4:52 p.m. to a swimmer-in-distress call, then brought in fire department rescue teams and police drones as the search widened. Support was also requested from the United States Coast Guard and New Jersey State Police. By the time of the latest reports, the swimmer had not been found.

Multiple news outlets identified the missing person as a 19-year-old man, and said he had been on a body board a couple hundred yards from the beach when he disappeared. That detail helped shape the search area and gave rescuers a starting point, even as the ocean pushed the effort farther offshore and made each pass more difficult.

The search also took on an added urgency after Ocean City Beach Rescue managed to save a second swimmer who was in the area. That swimmer was able to provide information about the missing man, giving rescuers one more thread to follow in waters where visibility and distance can quickly change a routine call into something far more serious.

The immediate question now is whether the combined response from local teams, state police and the Coast Guard can locate the missing swimmer before the search area shifts again. For now, ocean city nj officials have not said the effort is over, only that it is still underway.