Saturday, June, 19 2010 Nature: Water Related Public Assist – Delaware State Police and DNREC Location: Assist DNREC & Delaware State Police Address: Pot Nets Bayside @ Community Center – waterfront Earlier Saturday morning, the Indian River Volunteer Fire Company was alerted for a public assist incident to help the DNREC Fish & Wildlife Enforcement Officers and the Delaware State Police with a recovery effort. Indian River’s Marine Units responded to the boat launching facilities in the Pot Nets Bayside community to perform a recovery assignment in the Indian River Bay. This assignment will be to closure the earlier day’s water rescue priority. The Delaware State Police and the DNREC Officials, as well as the Office of the Medical Examiner will continue their investigation. Additional information may be obtained by viewing the News-Journal Webpage... (1) http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20100619/NEWS03/100619014/Millsboro-area+man+believed+to+have+drowned (2) CapeGazette Newspaper - http://www.capegazette.com/newssections/news.html Drowning victim may have had health issue The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control Division of Fish & Wildlife Enforcement agents recovered a body Saturday, June 19, in the vicinity of the Bayside Marina in Pot-Nets. Edward Paul Watcheski Jr., 69, of Pot-Nets, had last been seen three days earlier on a pontoon boat docked behind his home. Division of Fish & Wildlife agents began searching for him Friday afternoon, following a 911 call placed by the victim’s wife, who was out of town and had been unable to reach her husband by phone. The Indian River Fire Company and Delaware State Police assisted in locating the body. A relative of Watcheski told enforcement agents the victim had complained of heart pains earlier in the week. Agents believe he fell overboard, because they found a radio still playing when they arrived Friday afternoon to investigate his disappearance.