A 26-year-old man who was trapped near the Dimitrios II shipwreck in Chloraka was rescued on Tuesday at 2pm by the Paphos port police.
According to Paphos police spokesperson Michalis Nicolaou, a lifeguard alerted authorities after noticing a mobile phone that was swept away by a wave on the beach in front of the shipwreck and realising there was a man in need of help at large, as rough sea was preventing him to get back ashore.
A coast guard patrol was immediately dispatched to rescue the man who used a plastic dinghy to reach the shipwreck in order to take pictures.
The Dimitrios shipwreck was a cargo ship made in Germany that sank about 500 metres from the coast of Chloraka, on March 23, 1998. Since then it became a tourist attraction, particularly among scuba divers.
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