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Cliff diver dies at Flaming Gorge

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http://www.greenriverstar.com/news/article_9e152168-d932-11e2-9e13-001a4bcf887a.html

The body of a Rock Springs man was recovered from Flaming Gorge Saturday afternoon, according to a release from the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office.

Sweetwater County Sheriff Rich Haskell and County Coroner Dale Majhanovich said 24-year-old Michael Pond was at Flaming Gorge in the Big Firehole area on Saturday. Pond’s friends told investigating deputies and detectives that they drove to a spot at the top of a series of high cliffs along the lakeshore, where Pond said he wished to jump into the gorge.

Pond’s friends said they tried unsuccessfully to talk him out of the leap and he jumped. Once he went under, they told officials, he never came up.

Authorities were notified around 2:30 p.m. Deputies and other emergency responders converged at the scene, located about three miles southwest of the bay at Big Firehole.

Sweetwater Dive Team members recovered Pond’s body at 8:51 p.m. in about 42 feet of water.

Investigators gauged the cliff’s height where Pond jumped at just under 175 feet. An autopsy has been scheduled. Authorities said no signs of foul play are evident.

Saturday’s tragedy was not the first for the scene. In 1999, at virtually the identical spot, 19-year-old Kevin Corazza lost his life in much the same way as Pond.

“Cliff diving at Flaming Gorge is extremely dangerous,” Haskell said. “People don’t realize how terrific the impact with the water is from that height and you don’t really know how deep the water is. Jumping in from any serious elevation above the surface is a bad idea.”

Pond’s is the third death on Flaming Gorge this year. In May, Danny Angelo Durante of Jackson died when his small boat capsized in the gorge just south of the Wyoming-Utah border and Mitch Hunt of Rock Springs drowned in Sage Creek Bay June 2. In another incident on May 3, three Utah men were rescued when their small boat capsized in bad weather in the Anvil Draw area. The three were rescued by other boaters.

Submitted on 06/21/2013

Submitted by: Anonymous
Reference: Green River Star online June 19 2013

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>> Moderator Scores <<

Bruce said:
Definitely Toss: Too Common
Thanks, but we get lots of stories involving people diving, jumping, and swimming in waters that they shouldn't. This sort of thing happens pretty much every summer.


Candi said:
Definitely Toss: Too Common
What Bruce said.


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