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U.P. Breaking News Exclusive: Missing Teal Lake Swimmer Found Alive in Negaunee, MI - Missing 2 hours: 'I was swimming and apparently took too long'
Exclusive Teal Lake Swimmer Alive: Missing 2 Hours: "I was swimming and apparently took too long"
(Negaunee, MI – Teal Lake) - When a swimmer is reported missing after dark – for two hours – the incident often doesn't turn out happily.
But that swimmer – about 30 years old – was found alive after in Teal Lake rescue boats had been launched and divers called in.
Ask what happened by a rescue official the man said:
“I was swimming and apparently took too long,” said the man clad only in swimming trunks.
“Well somebody got worried about you,” the rescue official said, referring to the report the man had been missing for two hours.
Teal lake has shores in the cities of Ishpeming and Negaunee – and the swimmer was apparently located on the U.S. Highway 41 side of the Lake near the only outcropping.
Negaunee Police received the first report around 11:20 p.m. on Mon., July 21, 2014.
The call for more help went out over Marquette County 911 Central Dispatch about 11:34 p.m.
By approx 10 minutes after midnight - some 30 minutes later – the man was discovered and was not injured.
Among the agencies responding were the Negaunee Police Department, the Negaunee Fire Department, Bell Hospital EMS paramedics, the Marquette County Sheriff's Department Marine Division, Marquette County Sheriff's Department Dive Team.
Those units are part of the sheriff's department Special Operations Unit
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