35-year-old drowns while swimming with his friends at Arizona lake, officials say
A 35-year-old man drowned at an Arizona lake while swimming with friends, California authorities said.
Samuel J. Wipf, of Parker, Arizona, was swimming in Skiers Cove on Lake Havasu on Sunday, Aug. 28, when he began to struggle in the water, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office said. Wipf went “under the water and never resurfaced.”
After the sheriff’s office received a call about the drowning around 4:20 p.m. on Sunday, divers from the sheriff’s office, along with those from Mohave County Sheriff and Lake Havasu City Police Department, conducted rescue dives and sonar scans, the sheriff’s office said.
A Native Air helicopter also did aerial searches, officials said.
San Bernardino County Sheriff’s divers recovered Wipf’s body after it was located by Mohave County Sheriff’s “towable side scan sonar” around 8:30 p.m., the office said.
The incident is still being investigated as of Aug. 30, officials said. Anyone with information is asked to call 760-326-9200.
Lake Havasu is about 200 miles northwest of Phoenix.
This story was originally published August 30, 2022 at 4:31 PM with the headline "35-year-old drowns while swimming with his friends at Arizona lake, officials say."
