Search continues for a teenager missing off SA’s Victor Harbor

The search is continuing for a teenage boy missing off the coast at a popular holiday town in South Australia.

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00:00The search and rescue operation has resumed for a teenage boy swept off the coast here

00:06in Victor Harbour.

00:07SA police say that the 16-year-old boy from Blair Athol, which is in the Adelaide's northern

00:12suburbs was swept from rocks about 3.15pm yesterday on Sunday afternoon here at Granite

00:18Island.

00:19The State Emergency Service and SAIPOL are searching by foot while POLAR are using a

00:23helicopter to search by air, searching the waters around the area here.

00:27Marine safety vessels are also on standby.

00:30Victor Harbour here is a tourism town really that's around 80km south of Adelaide and Granite

00:36Island is one of the more popular tourism destinations separated from the mainland by

00:41a causeway.

00:42Now this has all happened as we've seen some pretty significant weather here in South Australia

00:47and across southern parts of the country as well.

00:50There's been a lot of wind, also some rain.

00:52SA police say that this weather has hampered the search efforts so far as well.

00:58Speaking yesterday, the officer in charge of the Hills Fleurieu Local Service Area,

01:03Superintendent Joanne Howard, she thanked the local community and also the local rescue

01:08services for all their efforts so far.