PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) – Divers on Friday recovered the body of a 20-year-old woman who fell out of a canoe in near-freezing weather over the weekend.
The recovery of Ashley Coury’s body, which ended a six-day search at Great South Pond, came a day after divers found the body of Brian Raleigh, 16.
Coury’s body was discovered around noon on the pond bottom about 40 feet away from the spot where Raleigh’s body was found, Plymouth Fire Chief Jim Pierson said.
The locations are a few hundred yards from shore in water 40 feet deep.
Coury, of Winter Park, Fla., and Raleigh, of Plymouth, had been the subject of a daily search since the canoe they were in overturned Saturday night, when temperatures were in the low 30s. Two others who were in the boat were rescued after it capsized.
Police Capt. Michael Botieri on Friday declined to comment on the investigation into the accident’s cause.
The two survivors told authorities in interviews that the group managed to return the canoe to an upright position after it initially overturned, Pierson said Friday. The four, who were not wearing life jackets, tried to return to shore by swimming alongside the canoe, but it rolled over a couple more times.
Coury and Brian Raleigh went down in the water, and the other two were rescued by a relative and a police officer who came to the group’s aid in a small boat.
Relatives told investigators the group attended a family birthday party Saturday night, then decided to head to the pond on the outskirts of Plymouth, about 45 miles southeast of Boston.
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