The search for two missing swimmers in Lake Michigan in Northwest Indiana has been deemed a recovery mission and will resume on Sunday.
Officials were notified just before 3 p.m. Friday of a boat in distress off the shore near Whiting , about one nautical mile offshore from the Hammond Marina. A Coast Guard crew from Station Chicago responded to the scene, along with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and the Lake County Sheriff's Office, who also launched two helicopters to aid in the search efforts. Initially, there were eight people on board the 23-foot-long boat and three were in the water, the Coast Guard said.
He was wearing a life jacket and was taken to an area hospital for hypothermia but was later released, according to the Indiana DNR. The other two swimmers, two men, were not wearing life jackets and had gone under the water but did not resurface, according to the Coast Guard.The five other people on the boat were taken to the shore and their boat was towed to the Hammond Marina. Search efforts for the missing swimmers began Friday and extended into Saturday.
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