Peninsula: One of two drowning victims recovered

The body of a 16-year-old boy who drowned Saturday in the Quinault River was recovered shortly before 9 a.m. Sunday. The boy’s identity was not released.

“We don’t release the names of juveniles in cases such as this,” said Mike DeCapua, Police Chief of the Quinault Indian Nation. An autopsy is scheduled on the body.

The boy’s body was found at 8:45 a.m. Sunday on the north shore of the river at its mouth, about 200 yards downstream from where investigators believe he disappeared about 2: 20 p.m., DeCapua said.

The boy was one of three swimmers trying to cross mouth of Quinault River Saturday when he was caught by the swift current. The other two boys reached shore safely.

The Grays Harbor County Sheriff’s Office dive team and a Grays Harbor-based Coast Guard helicopter assisted in the search for four hours Saturday before the dive team was pulled out due to treacherous currents, DeCapua said.

Meanwhile, the search continued Sunday evening for the body of a 30-year-old Bremerton man whose raft overturned Saturday afternoon on the Duckabush River, about five miles west of Hood Canal near Brinnon.

The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office received a report Saturday afternoon of a raft that had struck a large rock in the river and overturned about three miles upstream from the mouth of the river.

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