Oklahoma Highway Patrol dive team recovers body after weekend drowning at Lake Thunderbird

KOCO ^ | 6/17/24 | Jonathan Greco

[DallasBiff]

OHP officials said investigators believe he jumped into the water to retrieve a hat without a life jacket.

NORMAN, Okla. —

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol dive team recovered a body on Monday after receiving a report that a man possibly drowned over the weekend at Lake Thunderbird.

OHP officials told KOCO 5 that they were advised around 6 p.m. on Sunday that a 28-year-old man had jumped off a boat to retrieve a hat near Hog Creek Marina. Witnesses reported seeing the man struggle and that he never resurfaced.

[DallasBiff]

RIP, very sad, but how important is a hat.

[Newbomb Turk]

I’m amazed at the amount of people who can’t swim but go near deep water.

[Tell It Right]

I’m having trouble with the phrase “highway patrol dive team”.

[Paul R.]

Or who can swim but jump in with clothes (more than trunks or a bathing suit) on.

(I once got PUSHED (kind of a joke) in with heavy work clothes on and had to be pulled out, and I was a pretty good swimmer.)

[null and void]

RIP, very sad, but how important is a hat.

Worth your life?

[wintertime]

I suspect hypothermia.

[maddog55]

Water temps in the lakes here in the mountains are already 80 degrees...

Oklahoma’s Lake Thunderbird 3 days ago was 85.

[SisterK]

heavy clothes
got tangled in something
bit by water moccasins
or recently ate lunch and started cramping

[TangoLimaSierra]

I’m having trouble with the phrase “highway patrol dive team”.

Just picture Broderick Crawford in a wetsuit.

[wintertime]

Then hypothermia is not the reason.

Where I live our lakes and rivers are fed by ice melt. They remain cold throughout the year. In the lakes, only the top 6 inches warms.

[faucetman]

I’ll guess that alcohol was a factor.