The search for a man missing on Lake Rotorua after a boat he was in sunk yesterday resumed at first light this morning.

The Coastguard is currently undertaking the search and the Police National Dive Squad is heading to the area.

Police are looking for a man who went missing on Lake Rotorua yesterday evening.

'Police have been able to establish that five local men were in an aluminium dingy when it got into trouble at approximately 5.45pm,” says a statement from police.

'Witnesses estimate the vessel was about 500 metres from shore at the time, but work is ongoing to establish its exact location.”

The missing man is in his 20s and from Rotorua.

Police are liaising with his family and no further details about him will be released at this stage.

Police are still working to establish exactly what equipment the men had with them at the time of the incident but it is understood the missing man was not wearing a lifejacket.