Salt Spring Island RCMP are asking for the public’s help in finding a 36-year-old man who has been missing since Wednesday.

Andrew Norman DeMarsh was last seen around 2 p.m. on Wednesday in the area of Suneagle Drive on Salt Spring Island.

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Investigators are looking into whether DeMarsh left Salt Spring Island as a foot passenger on a B.C. Ferries vessel.

Police are looking for information from any B.C. Ferries passengers who left Salt Spring Island from any terminal on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday.

DeMarsh is Caucasian, six-foot-three-inches tall and 186 pounds. He has brown hair and hazel eyes.

RCMP and Salt Spring Island search and rescue volunteers are conducting a ground search, an RCMP helicopter is searching from the air and an RCMP boat, Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue and the Canadian Coast Guard are searching the water.

“All available resources for land, air and water based searches are engaged and currently supporting local officers in their search for Andrew DeMarsh,” said Cpl. Darren Lagan of the Salt Spring Island RCMP.

Anyone with information about DeMarsh’s whereabouts, or his movements over the past three days, is asked to call Salt Spring Island RCMP at 250-537-5555.