COAL RUN, Ky. — Emergency officials endured below freezing temperatures yesterday on a portion of the Big Sandy River which cadaver dogs found interesting in the search for a missing Pike County teen. However, all day of dragging the Levisa Fork, about 1,000 to 1,500 feet below the spot officials think 19-year-old Joshua Jerome Tessmer fell in on Jan. 8, failed to produce a body.

Temperatures were much colder on the water yesterday than the mid 20s documented by themometers on land, but it didn’t stop officials from continuing the search for Tessmer, missing for nearly two weeks now.

The area about a mile from the Floyd County line was a point of interest to the cadaver dogs with the Kentucky Search Dog Association and the sonar equipment brought up to Pike by Grant County rescue officials, said Millard East Shelbiana Fire and Rescue Chief Glen Adkins.

Members of Pike County Emergency Management, Millard East Shelbiana Volunteer Fire and Rescue, and other organizations maneuvered boats along the river as Coal Run Volunteer Fire Department Chief Levi Coleman stood on the bank ready to assist.

“I’m just here to support,” Coleman said, adding he came out around 9 a.m. yesterday to assist in the search.

Green Meadows Coun-try Club employee Wayne Tessmer of 6887 North Mayo Trail reported last seeing his son Joshua Jan. 8, at about 4:15 p.m., at their residence in the Greenview area.

Rescue officials found Joshua Tessmer’s hat on the banks of Levisa Fork behind the Tessmer residence, causing them to believe the young man had fallen into the flooding water. Called out to assist with assessing the scene, Millard Chief Glen Adkins said he could see where someone had went into the river, but did not see an exit point.

“We’re pretty well positive he’s in the water,” Adkins said previously. “We haven’t found him yet.”

Several crews from Pike County organizations, with assistance from departments in Floyd and Johnson counties, searched debris left by retreating flood water along the river banks, and dragged the river bed as best they could in rapid currents last week. Turning up nothing, Pike Emergency Management Director Doug Tackett said the Kentucky Search Dog Association brought ca-daver dogs — trained to smell a dead body under water — to assist with the search.

Grant County officials came up with their sonar equipment as well, Adkins said, Both the dogs and the sonar equipment indicated the area crews searched yesterday as a point of interest.

“”There’s a big difference in a point of interest and being able to find something,” said Adkins, who has been out on the river for 12 consecutive days.

The Corps of Engineers held the water at Fishtrap and Flannigan dams for the search crews two days last week, Tackett previously told the Daily News, while Adkins said they held it until noon yesterday.

However, there is nothing officials can do to stop the cold weather that has plagued efforts from the beginning.

“It’s the worst conditions I’ve ever had to work in regarding a drowning,” Adkins, who has been diving for bodies since 1972, said. “We’ve had no luck as far as he weather or the water goes.”