DARTMOOR Search and Rescue Team Tavistock were called by the police on Sunday to help search for a man at Burrator Reservoir deemed to be high risk and possibly suicidal.

The police called for the team’s help just before 2.30pm, after the 31-year-old man had been missing from Plympton since Thursday. On Sunday his bicycle, notes and some clothing were found at Burrator Reservoir.

The team called for extra assistance from DSRT Plymouth and members of both teams’ specially trained and equipped water units searched an extensive length of the shoreline of the reservoir.

Other members, including a search dog team, searched the forestry plantations along the south and eastern sides of the reservoir. Concurrently, the police underwater search team carried out a diving search in the reservoir itself. Once darkness fell the operation was suspended, to be continued in daylight today (Monday).