The body of a Rock Springs man was recovered from Flaming Gorge Saturday afternoon. Sweetwater County Detective Dick Blust, Jr. says that 24 year old Michael Pond was on an outing at Flaming Gorge in the Big Firehole area on Saturday in the company of four friends.
Authorities were notified around 2:30 PM. Deputies and other emergency responders, including the Sweetwater Boat Team and Sweetwater Dive Team, the Wyoming Game Fish Department, and the United States Forest Service, converged at the scene, located about 3 miles southwest of the bay at Big Firehole.
Pond’s is the third death on Flaming Gorge this year. In May, Danny Angelo Durante of Jackson died when his small boat capsized in the Gorge just south of the Wyoming-Utah border and Mitch Hunt of Rock Springs drowned in Sage Creek Bay June 2. On May 3rd, three young Utah men narrowly escaped death when their own small boat capsized in bad weather in the Anvil Draw area. The three were rescued by other boaters.
Authorities were notified around 2:30 PM. Deputies and other emergency responders, including the Sweetwater Boat Team and Sweetwater Dive Team, the Wyoming Game Fish Department, and the United States Forest Service, converged at the scene, located about 3 miles southwest of the bay at Big Firehole.
Pond’s is the third death on Flaming Gorge this year. In May, Danny Angelo Durante of Jackson died when his small boat capsized in the Gorge just south of the Wyoming-Utah border and Mitch Hunt of Rock Springs drowned in Sage Creek Bay June 2. On May 3rd, three young Utah men narrowly escaped death when their own small boat capsized in bad weather in the Anvil Draw area. The three were rescued by other boaters.
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