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47-year-old swimmer’s body found after he didn’t resurface in Arizona lake, cops say

A 47-year-old California man drowned at Lake Havasu when he went swimming and didn’t resurface, Arizona officials say.
A 47-year-old California man drowned at Lake Havasu when he went swimming and didn’t resurface, Arizona officials say. Getty Images/iStockphoto

A 47-year-old man died at Lake Havasu when he entered the water to swim and never resurfaced, California authorities reported.

The swimmer, identified as Dean Phan of Garden Grove, vanished at the popular lake on the California-Arizona border on Saturday, Oct. 8, the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.

On Sunday, searchers using side-scan sonar technology found his body in 32 feet of water, the release said.

The Mohave County Medical Examiner’s Office will determine his cause of death, sheriff’s officials said.

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This story was originally published October 10, 2022 at 9:53 AM with the headline "47-year-old swimmer’s body found after he didn’t resurface in Arizona lake, cops say."

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Don Sweeney
The Sacramento Bee
Don Sweeney has been a newspaper reporter and editor in California for more than 35 years. He is a service reporter based at The Sacramento Bee.
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