Police were yesterday unable to recover a mystery object from the sea, near the beach where a man disappeared in Central Hawke's Bay 10 days ago.
Eastern District Command Centre Senior Sergeant Ross Smith said police search-and-rescue teams were called to Blackhead Beach, southeast of Waipukurau, yesterday afternoon, after an object was sighted in the sea by a member of the public.
But after several hours of searching, no object was recovered and the operation came to an end.
Mr Smith could not confirm what the object had been.
Blackhead Beach is near Shoal Bay, Aramoana, where a man went missing 10 days ago.