Ryan Lewis, Missing Teen Presumed Drown While Trying to Help Others (UPDATE: Found Deceased)
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.