According to multiple reports, a Muskegon-area man in his 40s drowned in White Lake in Montague over the July 4 weekend.
The Muskegon Professional Firefighters Union posted on Facebook at 9:32 p.m. Saturday, July 5, that the Muskegon Fire Department dive rescue team was assisting on a rescue mission.
The emergency originally was reported on emergency scanners at 8:28 p.m. as a male in his 40s underwater. At 9:10, the scanners further reported that given the amount of time that had passed, it was now a recovery effort.
A WOOD-TV report said the man, who has not been publicly identified, was one of several who were boating on the lake and jumped into the lake to swim. The unmanned boat then began to float away; some of the party made it back to the boat and were able to pick up others who were in the water, but the man in question did not make it back.
Sunday evening, July 6, at 7:52 p.m., it was reported recovery of the body was underway, and it was completed Monday morning.
