Friday, Aug. 25, 2006
By Marcie Young
Charlotte Observer Staff Writer
A three-day search for a man who fell off a boat into Lake Norman's murky waters ended Thursday afternoon in Catawba County.
Authorities, aided by search dogs and sonar equipment, found the body of the unidentified male around 4 p.m., said Chief Keith Bost of the Sherrills Ford Fire Department.
The body, he said, has been flown to Chapel Hill for identification.
The man disappeared Monday evening after falling off a boat near Spinnaker Bay Drive, south of Terrell.
The boat's driver, Robert William Ray Grooms, has been charged with boating while impaired.
The confirmed drowning marks the ninth death on the lake this year.
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