{"id":43975,"date":"2025-09-26T04:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T04:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/43975\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T04:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T04:57:08","slug":"harrison-edward-nada-kontounas-missing-in-bali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/43975\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrison Edward Nada Kontounas missing in Bali"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HarrisonHarrison Kontounas<\/p>\n

Harrison Edward Nada Kontounas, 23, went missing on Wednesday in Bali<\/p>\n

A search is under way for a missing British holidaymaker who was swept out to sea in Bali.<\/p>\n

Harrison Edward Nada Kontounas, 23, from Ilford, east London, was swimming with friends on the island’s Legian Beach on Wednesday when a strong current is believed to have pulled him beneath the waves.<\/p>\n

According to search and rescue in Denpasar, Bali, he and two others were in the water when he went missing.<\/p>\n

Friend Freddie Palmer, who was with Mr Kontounas when he went missing, said: “We need help to find our friend dead or alive before it’s too late.”<\/p>\n

\"DenpasarDenpasar Search and Rescue<\/p>\n

Friend Freddie Palmer said he and his friends were traumatised<\/p>\n

He expressed unhappiness with the way the search was being handled, claiming lifeguards took three hours to arrive and that he and his friends had paid \u00a31,700 themselves for a helicopter search but no trace of Mr Kontounas was found.<\/p>\n

‘We are traumatised. We just believe that the authorities here could have acted quicker and maybe he would be sitting here with us right now,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We have put in more hours looking as a three than they did in the first 24 hours.”<\/p>\n

\"DenpasarDenpasar Search and Rescue<\/p>\n

The island’s search and rescue team said it used drones, boats and jetskis to find the missing man <\/p>\n

Search and rescue chief Nyoman Sidakarya said Mr Kontounas was reported missing at 18:40 local time (11:40 BST) on Wednesday. <\/p>\n

The organisation’s Instagram account said searches were undertaken along the coastline using boats, jet skis and drones.<\/p>\n

“So far the joint (search and rescue) team has not been able to find any signs of the victim’s presence,” it said.<\/p>\n

He said the search had been hampered by waves as high as 2.5m (8ft).<\/p>\n

If they were unable to find Mr Kontounas, he said “the next plan of movement” would be determined.<\/p>\n

Mr Sidakarya warned people to take care visiting the beach as the wind could reach up to 39 km\/h (24mph).<\/p>\n

The Foreign Office said: “We are supporting the family of a missing British national in Indonesia and are liaising with local authorities.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harrison Kontounas Harrison Edward Nada Kontounas, 23, went missing on Wednesday in Bali A search is under way…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-43975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}