Missing boater presumed drowned in Flathead Lake
Flathead Lake shown from the Jewel Basin hiking area in 2018. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake FILE)
Search and rescue teams from Lake, Flathead and Missoula counties, as well as Kootenai County, Idaho, on Monday continued scouring Flathead Lake for the body of a missing boater, presumed to have drowned after becoming separated from his boat Thursday, June 27.
According to Lake County Sheriff Don Bell, the missing boater has been identified as 34-year-old Chad Hansen of Missoula.
Lake County 911 took the report of a boater on Flathead Lake who was in trouble at around 9:41 p.m. Hansen “somehow ended up in the water, separated from his boat,” stated a press release from the Sheriff’s Office.
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