17 year old Ryan Lewis is presumed drown in the Delaware River after he tried to help stranded friends. Approximately 100 rescue workers took part in the search for Ryan Lewis. The search is being called a recovery effort.
Marine search and rescue teams dragged the Delaware River off National Park for most of the day. Four divers were also sent in during low tide.
At 9:00 Wednesday night, friends, whose boat ran around during low tide off what locals call No Name Island, called Lewis. Wanting to help, Lewis went into the river to try to reach the boat. He went under a couple hundred feet off shore near the Red Bank Battlefield in National Park.
His desire to help others may have cost him his life.
UPDATE I: Body of missing teen recovered
Rescue crews have recovered the body of a missing West Deptford teen who went missing while trying to swim to friends whose boat had become stranded on a sand bar in the Delaware River.
The body of Ryan Lewis, 17, was recovered at 1:28 p.m. Saturday, according to Dennis Kapler, spokesman for the National Park Fire Department.
September 1st, 2007 at 11:54pm
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Floyd Nelson, the father of the NBA Orlando Magic’s guard and former St Josephs 
University star Jameer Nelson, has been missing since Thursday. Floyd Nelson disappeared from his job on the Chester water front on the Delaware River. The 57 year old Nelson was last seen at about 10:30 am. He was supposed to rejoin a painting crew on a barge by noon. Floyd Nelson has not been seen nor heard from.
Authorities said they don’t know for sure if Floyd Nelson fell into the Delaware River but Chester’s police commissioner said a multi-jurisdictional search effort will continue.
According to officials, Nelson disappeared near the waterfront at Front Street and Highland Avenue. Jameer Nelson arrived at the search scene Friday morning as divers, the U.S. Coast Guard and trained dogs continued to look for the missing man
Chester’s lead detective said some of Floyd Nelson’s personal items were found in a barge where he was assisting a painting crew.
“His car is in the lot, keys in the lounge with lunch and medication. He has high blood pressure,” Captain Joseph Massi, of Chester detectives, said. (NBC 10)
UPDATE I: Water search ends for Jameer’s father
After two days of combing the river bottom with divers and grappling hooks, police called off the water search yesterday afternoon and declared Nelson’s disappearance a missing-person’s case.
Divers couldn’t “see their hand in front of their face” as the search for Nelson entered its second day, Massi said. It ended at around 4 p.m. with no evidence indicating that he had fallen into the water while working at Hays Tug & Launch Service.
“We promised the family we would look until there was no reason to look any further, and we’ve reached that,” said Chester Fire Commissioner James Johnson.
“Hopefully, no news is good news,” he said.
If anyone has any information on Floyd “Pete” Nelson’s whereabouts is asked to call Chester detectives at 610-447-7908.
September 1st, 2007 at 01:29pm
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