HURRICANE — Searchers were called out this afternoon to an area near Quail Creek Ranch in Hurricane to a report of a man who disappeared while swimming across a private pond.
The 20-year-old man was swimming with a family member when he decided to swim across the pond, according to a press release issued by the Hurricane City Police Department.
The man apparently “couldn’t swim the distance,” the release states. The family member attempted to assist the man but was unsuccessful and called for help.
Hurricane City Police officers were called in, as were Utah State Park rangers who brought a boat to help in the rescue effort, which shortly became a recovery operation.
Washington County Search and Rescue divers assisted and located the man’s body submerged in approximately 9 feet of water.
Tiffany Mower, Hurricane City Police assistant public information officer, said she was unable to confirm the man’s hometown or identification until notification had been made to his family.
The Hurricane Valley Fire District also assisted in the search.
This report is based on preliminary information provided by law enforcement or other emergency responders and may not contain the full scope of findings.
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i’m gonna take a wild guess and say drugs or alcohol were involved. that pond looks pretty small
Nope drugs weren’t involved. He was a good person and great brother to me.
a terrible loss. i’m just critical of such a vague, seemingly incomplete article.
i can picture some young guys maybe getting a bit tipsy on a case of beer and this happening… so …
Way to go Bob pfffffffffft you’re pathetic !
Yeah there goes blow hard know it all Sherlock dumbob again
i see on this map ‘grandpas pond’. i see what looks like a very tiny pond not much bigger than the house off to the left of it marked as the drowning scene. So was the cause of this drowning simply an inability to swim???…