A body was recovered Thursday after dive teams scoured Echo Park Lake for hours searching for the victim after a report of a capsized pedal boat.
Fire-rescue personnel responded to the lake north of downtown Los Angeles around 4 a.m. Divers are searching for one person in the lake after he reportedly fell from one of the recreation area's swan-shaped pedal boats.
Video showed one of the swan boats upside-down in the water. One of two men aboard the boat apparently made it to shore and told police he was with a group that took the swan boats out on the water. It was not immediately clear whether the boats were secured.
The divers are using sonar to help scan the bottom of the lake. Firefighters said it's possible the second man also made it to the shore and has yet to be located.
The men might have cut locks on the swan pedal boats before taking them out on the lake, according to police.
The deepest part of the lake is about 30 feet. LAFD Capt. Erik Scott said after daybreak "the rescue efforts "transitioned to a body-recovery operation."
A body was recovered Thursday around 1:45 p.m. under 5-feet-deep vegetation, the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to our sister station KVEA.
