Nikolas Tomasevic, 35, disappeared while swimming at Aquatic Park Cove around 10:15 a.m. on Saturday. He wore an orange swimming cap and trunks and was last seen by a fellow swimmer. Multiple city agencies, the police, the Coast Guard and the highway patrol conducted sonar and surface searches but found no trace. The swimmer who reported him waited about four hours before notifying authorities, creating a gap that hindered pinpointing a search location. Friends and club members fear a sudden medical episode such as a seizure; the Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club lowered flags to half-staff and asked anyone with information to contact SFPD or text TIP411.
"Very strong swimmer and dedicated swimming. He would swim year-round, winter and summer," said swimmer George Robyn. Nikolas was last seen on Saturday around 10:15 a.m. swimming inside the Aquatic Park Cove. He was wearing an orange swimming cap and swimming trunks. George Robyn knew Nikolas and is concerned he might have had a medical episode. "A seizure- that if he had a seizure in the water that would be it. He said that, kind of in passing to someone else in the past," said Robyn.
Multiple city agencies began searching for Nikolas Saturday afternoon after the swimmer he was with reported him missing. "Unfortunately, that person waited four hours to let us know. That is the gap in time that doesn't really allow us to get a pinpoint location," said Lt. Mariano Elias with SFFD. "We worked with the police department, the coast guard and highway patrol to try to look using sonar and basically try to see where that person was, we had no luck finding them."
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