The body of drowning victim 70-year-old Charlie Daniels of Jordan was recovered just before noon Monday on Lake Norfork. According to Baxter County Sheriff John Montgomery, divers from the Arkansas Game and Fish recovered the body in approximately 114 feet of water. Baxter County Coroner Bradley Hays has ruled it an accidental drowning.
Emergency service personnel responded to a call from Jordan Marina at approximately 3:47 Sunday afternoon on a report that a man, 70-year-old Charles Hogan Daniels, had jumped into the water at a location north of Jordan Island, from a boat and disappeared.
The Sheriffs Office, Arkansas Game and Fish, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Rangers, and Fire/Rescue teams went to the area by boat and began to search for Daniels. At approximately 11:30 Sunday night search teams believed they had possibly found his body on sonar in approximately 115 feet of water.
Divers went down Monday morning to make the recovery.
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