Sunday, August 4, 2013

Search underway for man who jumped into Lake Washington

A U.S. Coast Guard boat pulls up alongside another powerboat on the scene as they assist in the search for a 26-year-old man using divers & special side-scan radar  during Seafair Saturday on Lake Washington. (Photo by Lindsey Wasson / The Seattle Times)

A U.S. Coast Guard boat pulls up alongside another powerboat on the scene as they they assist in the search for a 26-year-old man using divers and special side-scan radar during Seafair Saturday on Lake Washington. (Photo by Lindsey Wasson / The Seattle Times)

Authorities are searching for a man in his 20s who reportedly failed to resurface after falling off a boat into Lake Washington.

Seattle police said the man fell and hit his head on a boat before tumbling into the water at about 4:40 p.m. Saturday near the 5000 block of Lake Washington Blvd. South.?The police department?s Harbor Patrol unit and?U.S. Coast Guard were looking for the man.

It was the second local water-related search on the busy Seafair Saturday.

Earlier, a man was pulled from South Lake Union in critical condition after he jumped into the lake and failed to resurface. The unidentified 49-yera-old man was taken to Harborview Medical Center, according to a Seattle Fire Department spokeswoman.

A man hugs a distraught woman near the 5000 block of Lake Washington Boulevard South. (Photo by Lindsey Wasson / The Seattle Times)

A man hugs a distraught woman near the 5000 block of Lake Washington Boulevard South. (Photo by Lindsey Wasson / The Seattle Times)

Source: http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2013/08/search-underway-for-man-who-jumped-into-lake-washington/

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