Search crews have found the body of a boating accident victim missing since Sunday in the Missouri River near Hamburg, Iowa.
Marlo Wilson of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources says the body of Jason Grayson was recovered around 11am Wednesday in an area they’ve been searching since Sunday
Officials on Sunday said two men were on the 16-foot fishing boat when it lost power near the Hamburg Mitchell Access Landing and was swept under a barge moored to the bank of the Missouri River. The operator of the boat, 47-year-old Johnnie Fields, of Shenandoah, was able to swim beneath the barge and then was rescued by people along the riverbank. The search continued for Grayson, a 42-year-old man from Elliott, Iowa.
His body was found just south of the state border in Missouri. A boat from the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Water Patrol Division was dispatched to help with the search for Mr. Grayson’s body Wednesday.
The incident remains under instigation, but Wilson says they do not suspect any foul play.