Authorities say the 30-year-old man, whose name and hometown were not immediately disclosed, was in the area to visit a cousin.
He had taken the canoe out on Farrington Lake around noon Saturday and was last seen in an area between Route 18 and Ryders Lane in /*East Brunswick*/.
After the man failed to return by dusk, his cousin called authorities around 7:30 p.m. Several police officers, firefighters and divers soon began searching the waterway and surrounding area, and they eventually found the 16-foot canoe but not its oars.
. The search was suspended just after midnight, then resumed around 6:30 a.m. Sunday.
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