Emergency responders and family are continuing to search for 30-year-old Berman Gutierrez, who has not been seen or heard from for hours since going swimming in the water at Rockaway Beach overnight Monday.

“He was good,” Noel Torrez said. “I don’t know what happened here. The guy is a good person.”

Torrez, Gutierrez’s uncle, and other family members camped out at the spot he was last seen near Seagirt Boulevard and Beach 13th Street most of the day Monday — anxiously waiting for news or answers.

Asked about what the police told is family, Torrez said he hadn’t received much information.

“They don’t say nothing,” Torrez said. “They say we have to wait only that’s it.”

Emergency personnel responded to Beach 13th and Seagirt Boulevard around 2 a.m., according to authorities.

Police said Gutierrez was last seen going into the water to swim and was swept out into deeper waters.

Torrez said he was baffled by the situation because he said his nephew is a good swimmer.

Searches by an NYPD Scuba team, police Harbor, Coast Guard and firefighters in the water, on land and in the air had so far been unsuccessful.

“I saw the helicopter over there,” one woman said.

“I saw police cars driving up and down,” another man said.

Torrez said his nephew was with friends, including two women and a man. But he has no idea who those people are and hasn’t seen or spoken to them.

“He was here with any friends but these people I don’t know who is,” Torrez said.

He said Gutierrez is originally from Nicaragua and has only been in the United States for about a year and a half, working as an inspector for a food distribution company.

Gutierrez’s wife and parents are also back home in Nicaragua and like Torrez, are waiting for news. So far they have many questions but few answers.

“They are feeling bad,” Torrez said about his family. “Destroyed. This is a big problem.”

A search from the air and in the water remains ongoing.