EFFINGHAM COUNTY, Ill. (WCIA) — A body recovered from Lake Sara earlier this month was identified as a construction worker from Ohio, the Effingham County Coroner confirmed.
Around 3 p.m. on Oct. 1, two employees working at a construction site on Lake Sara decided to swim across the lake to their Airbnb. At about half way across, one of them went underwater and never resurfaced. Emergency personnel responded to the scene, but weren’t able to find him due to the “darkness and the dive team’s safety,” Coroner Rhodes added.
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The body was found the next morning. The Department of Natural Resources used a “towfish” sonar device to recover the body from the center basin of Lake Sara, which is about 34 feet deep. They then identified the man as Kameron Brown, 29 of Sardis, Ohio.
An autopsy revealed Brown died of drowning after the 73-degree temperature of the water caused his body to cramp and become disoriented, restricting oxygen to his major organs.