Police have given an update in their search for X Factor star Levi Davis who went missing seven months ago.
The rugby player, then 24, vanished on October 29 after leaving the UK and travelling alone to Barcelona - with the last confirmed sighting in CCTV footage leaving a bar near the city's thoroughfare.
Police have since told his mum Julie that four cruise ship workers saw someone in the water shouting for help in English, just hours later at around 6.30am.
They were said to be in a light-coloured T-shirt like the one Levi was seen wearing.
A lifebuoy was thrown but a subsequent search by police and the coastguard found nothing.
Police divers are now looking to "find a trace" of him, and have spent 15 days searching the area of Barcelona's port.
They now estimate that the search will last for up to a month.
A spokesperson for the Mossos d'Esquadra Maritime Police told The Sun: "The water team that we have continues to do so and will continue for another 10-15 days approximately."
Officers said they are continuing to collect evidence in their search, which has so far only turned up Levi's passport around 20 days after his disappearance.
Levi's mum, Julie Davis, travelled to Barcelona in April to retrace her son's steps as investigators confirmed to her their belief that he had drowned.
She said at the time: "Why is this information about the cruise ship staff only coming months later?
"I don’t know what to believe anymore."
The mum said she still has plenty of questions but has become disheartened by the lack of feedback from police.
She added: "The way the evidence is pointing isn’t good but without a body, there’s just no way of knowing what’s happened."
Levi appeared on X Factor in 2019 as part of the group Try Star, while also playing rugby for Bath.
His sudden disappearance - after leaving friends to travel by boat - has led to several theories, with his mum previously stating her belief that he was being blackmailed.
Levi posted a video prior to going missing claiming he was a target after being snapped in "compromising positions".
Spanish cops claimed in February that he had "not gone missing voluntarily", but then told Ms Davies he had likely drowned.
Levi's mum said he was recovering from a ligament injury and was feeling down when he travelled abroad to "clear his head".
After arriving at the port in Barcelona following a four-hour ferry ride he was seen leaving The Old Irish Pub on CCTV, with police saying there were subsequent sightings at the Hard Rock Cafe, a few minutes away.
An Instagram story emerged in February - posted four days before he disappeared.
The video, which was saved by a friend, opened with: “My name is Levi Davis and my life is in danger.”
He then spent 15 minutes talking about being blackmailed by unknown people who had taken pictures of him in “compromising positions”, claiming his life and his family’s life were under threat.
Reports that Levi owed £100,000 also emerged in Catalan newspaper La Vanguardia.
Ms Davies said she "won't ever give up hope".
She added: “I don’t want to believe it and I won’t believe it until the police say, ‘Here’s the body’.”
