Special dive team seeking man missing at bottom of waterfall
BANNER ELK, N.C. (AP) - Authorities have called in a special dive team to the North Carolina mountains to search for an Ohio man believed drowned in the pool at the bottom of a waterfall.
Avery County Sheriff Kevin Frye says divers from Charlotte are helping locate the man who disappeared Sunday at Elk River Falls in the Pisgah National Forest. Frye says the man was at the base of the 50-foot (15-meter) falls when he fell into the water and currents strengthened by excessive rains pulled him away from people trying to rescue him.
Frye told media outlets the 26-year-old man was visiting for a wedding. The sheriff didn't release his name.
Frye says the water is 70 feet (20 meters) deep and the churning river keeps pulling the body back under.
