Search stood down

The search for two missing fishermen at Slope Point near Bluff was stood down yesterday after unsuccessful searches of the coastline.

Shaun Orchard, 23 and Hendrix Kamo, 28, went missing on January 27. An alarm was raised by people nearby around 4.20pm after the two men appeared to have been swept off rocks. Yesterday police announced that after almost two weeks of searches, they have made the decision to withdraw the formal search teams.