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Divers End Search--Update: Body Found

Divers from the Mercer Island Police department have suspended their search for a man caught in a whirlpool in the Snoqualmie River on Sunday.

Update from the King County Sheriff's office:

A body was found this afternoon (Wednesday, May 25)  in the Snoqualmie River, at about the same area where a 29 year old Bothell man went missing on Sunday.

The body was seen by people in a boat who had been checking the river.  Sheriff's divers recovered the body just after 3:00 PM in about 4 feet of water and over 50 feet from shore.

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King County Sheriff's divers have suspended their search in the Snoqualmie River for a missing 29 year-old Bothell man.  The man was swept away by the fast moving river late Sunday afternoon while trying to rescue his dog.

 Divers, including divers from the Mercer Island Police Department, spent most of Monday in the water searching back-eddies and whirlpools downstream from where the man was last seen, but did not locate him.

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 Visibility during the dives was between two and five feet, with many car-sized boulders, rock walls, and log debris.

Witnesses said Johnny Sharrar, threw a stick in the water for his and fiancé Lindsay Grennan’s dogs to chase on Sunday at Fall City, Wash. when one of the dogs was pulled into a whirlpool. Sharrar entered the water to help the dog when he became trapped in the current, according to King County sheriff's Sgt. M.B. Janasz.

Grennan also apparently went into the water, but was rescued and taken to Overlake Hospital Medical Center in Bellevue, where she was treated and released.

Both dogs survived the ordeal.

The Sheriff's Office Marine Unit will float the river weekly looking for the victim, and Guardian One will do frequent fly-overs in the coming days and weeks.

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