HARFORD COUNTY, Md. (WBFF) — The search for a missing Havre de Grace boater ended Thursday when authorities recovered his body from the Susquehanna River.
The Maryland Natural Resources Police announced they recovered the body of 18-year-old Mark Everett Coates III, who went missing on the Susquehanna River on Wednesday, Nov. 4.
Officials said they concluded the search after divers located him deceased Thursday, Nov. 12.
At around noon on Nov. 12, dive teams from the Maryland Natural Resources Police, Maryland State Police and the Baltimore County Police Department responded to the Susquehanna River between the Tydings Memorial Bridge (I-95) and the Hatem Memorial Bridge (US 40), officials reported.
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Officials said they responded after the Christian Aid Ministries Pennsylvania Search & Rescue team located a target of interest offshore of Garrett Island using an underwater drone.
Divers recovered the body, which was positively identified by authorities as Coates, officials reported.
Coates’ 10-foot aluminum jon boat was found capsized and unmanned near Garrett Island in the Susquehanna River on November 5.
Authorities said he was last seen operating the vessel near the Hatem Bridge on the evening of November 4.
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