Drama at the inner stall lock: 40-year-old missing while swimming!

Drama at the inner stall lock: 40-year-old missing while swimming!

In the Inner Stetal lock in the Goslar district, there was a tragic incident on Sunday, June 23, 2025, in which a 40-year-old swimmer disappeared. According to ndr this happened as the man from his wife. Despite intensive search measures, the man initially failed to do without it. The search was started on Sunday with various means such as boats, drones and divers, but had to be canceled due to the darkness in the evening.

The local fire brigade was alerted at 4:37 p.m. after noticing that a person is missing while swimming. Emergency services from the Altenau fire brigade hurried with a device car, an emergency boat and a diver to the scene of the accident, such as "https://regionalheute.de/goslar/dramatic-in-der-innerstetaltersperre-40-jaehriger-misst-goslar-harz-1750680767/" Regionalheute . Overall, the divers of the WasserRettung Clausthal-Zellerfeld specialist group carried out several dives. However, the underwater conditions were difficult: limited view, old tree roots and uneven reason made the search significant.

The challenges of the search

In addition to the underwater search, a surface search was also carried out with three boats. In addition, the fire brigade Liebenburg successfully used a drone to take aerial photographs and thus coordinate the search more effectively. But despite all efforts, the emergency services remained unsuccessful. Later the fire brigade handed over the site to the police, who planned the search for the next day, possibly with sonar support.

The police assume a fatal bathing accident and suspects that the man has drowned. In view of the latest statistics from the German Life Rettungs Society (DLRG), this is not an isolated case. In 2023, 411 fatal accidents were already registered in German waters, an increase of 31 deaths compared to the previous year. It has been the third successive increase of the drowned people since 2019, which caused the DLRG to intensify their educational work, especially for parents of small children, to draw them attention to the dangers in the water.

The tragic events related to the inner stall lock once again show the need for precautionary measures and an increased sensitization of bathers, especially in the summer months. There is still hope that clarity can be created when the search continued on Monday.