Rescue and emergency vehicles are parked at an impromptu command post on Burton Road on Thursday. Rescue workers searched near Sale Creek for a missing boater Thursday afternoon after two men were separated from their boat and only one made the swim back to shore.Map
The body of a fisherman man who dove into the water Thursday at Sale Creek and didn’t come up was found this morning, authorities said.
Martin King’s body was recovered about 6:30 a.m. by the Sale Creek Volunteer Fire Department, according to Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Janice Atkinson.
This afternoon, King’s family released an email statement thanking the rescuers and the community for their concern and help.
The family said that “[g]oing fishing with his father Thursday was a highlight to his life.”
King was fishing with his father, Ed King, when he jumped into the water to cool off.