Missing Swimmer hoax? found alive (PHOTO). Remember how worried you were about that guy who apparently got sucked out to sea at Jones Beach over the weekend? And the tens of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money rescuers spent trying to find him?

Well, get ready to be pissed off because it appears the whole thing was bullshit -- he was found alive and well in South Carolina today, after calling his brother from Florida early yesterday morning.

On Saturday, the 22-year-old son of 47-year-old Raymond Roth called police to report that his father had gone into the ocean at Jones Beach and that he hadn't come out.

The report launched a massive air and sea rescue effort by police and the Coast Guard, which waged on until yesterday, after Roth called his brother from the Sunshine State. Go here for more.