19-YEAR-OLD LAS VEGAS MAN DROWNS IN LAKE MOHAVE

[Lake Mead NRA Public Affairs]

National Park Service
U.S. Department of the Interior

LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA News Release

For Immediate Release: Sept. 6, 2009
Release No.: 2009-53
Contact: Andrew S. Muñoz, 702-293-8691

19-YEAR-OLD LAS VEGAS MAN DROWNS IN LAKE MOHAVE

NELSON, Nev. – The body of a 19-year-old Las Vegas man has been
recovered from Lake Mohave after he drowned near Fire Mountain Cove.
Divers from Las Vegas Metro Police recovered the body from about 14-
feet of water at 6:20 p.m.

The National Park Service received a transferred 911 call from
Bullhead City at 1:23 p.m. reporting a drowning.

The man had been swimming out to a point of land with five friends.
When the five swam back to shore they noticed that he was missing.

Witnesses in the cove saw the man lag behind the group and go
underwater. Friends and bystanders began searching the area. When he
wasn’t located they called 911, about 20 minutes after he went
missing.

National Park Service rangers and Arizona game wardens responded.
Rangers located the body about 35-feet from shore in 14-feet of water.

“Incidents such as this should remind us that you have to know your
limits before you go into the water,” said Andrew Muñoz, spokesman for
Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

He wasn’t wearing a life jacket.


- NPS -

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