Location: Phillips Landing Recreation Area, Laurel DE
Date of Occurrence: Sunday, August 1, 2010 at 3:30 p.m.
Resume: State Police are on the scene of a missing swimmer in the Phillips Landing Recreation Area in Laurel, DE. The preliminary investigation has revealed that a Laurel resident was last seen swimming in the water at approximately 3:30 this afternoon. Fire Department dive teams are currently searching for the missing man. More information will be released as soon as it is received.
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Heavy current in that river.
ReplyDeleteThe swimmers body was recovered around 5pm. Dive teams from multiple jurisdictioins were onscene.
ReplyDeleteThere is a great swing on a tree over the water there that is fun to play on but there is a fine line to where the calm turns into drastic current. Just like the beach in Sharptown.
ReplyDeleteBottom line this was a preventable incident. If you can't swim well or even not at all then do not enter the water. It sickens me to see another life lost and a family permantly scarred due to a failure to follow simple rules of being around water.
ReplyDelete9:24, accidents can and do happen. There could have been something in the water that he got entangled in, struck his head on, etc causing this horrible ACCIDENT. Sorry that death sickens you but seriously I am sure the family of the gentlemen is going through enough pain and suffering right now without having to know how you feel it was a preventable error.
ReplyDeleteBTW, there are excellent swimmers that drown.