Divers with the Portland-South Portland dive team and the Maine State Police returned to the water of Portland Harbor on Monday, this time using sonar in their continued search for a Saco man missing since New Year’s.
James Dyer, 23, who had gone to Portland’s Old Port on New Year’s Eve, was last seen on Fore Street at about 1:45 a.m. when he became separated from his friends, police said. There has been no evidence of foul play and police suspect he may have fallen in the water. The car he was riding in was parked on Union Wharf.
Divers searched the harbor several days last week, then suspended their search in hopes that time and temperatures might make a body rise from the bottom and be easier to find.
The dive team was back in the water Monday with a boat towing a sonar unit. The unit can scan the bottom, providing digital images of objects that might be worth diving down to explore, police said. The technology allows divers to cover a large area in the limited amount of time they can be in the water in a day.
Monday’s search yielded no leads.
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