Manila, April 23 -- Search and rescue (SAR) operations for a missing British national in Dauin, Negros Oriental will continue on Thursday after initial efforts on Wednesday yielded negative results.

Lt. Marionne Abigail Enopia, Coast Guard Negros Oriental station commander, told the Philippine News Agency that Mark David Morris, 44, was reported missing at 8 a.m. to the Dauin police by his wife, 42-year-old Emily Tan Fern, a Singapore resident.

"Our Coast Guard (CG) personnel in Dauin and Zamboanguita, together with the municipal disaster risk reduction and management office (DRRMO), conducted a search early Wednesday after receiving reports of the missing person," Enopia said.

SAR teams scoured the waters of Dauin and its neighboring...