SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The body of a swimmer who was declared missing at San Francisco’s Aquatic Park over the weekend has been recovered. The swimmer was last seen around 10:15 a.m. Saturday.
Rescuers and first responders searched the San Francisco Bay and combed the shoreline in an effort to locate the swimmer before the search was eventually suspended later that day.
On Tuesday, the San Francisco Police Department confirmed it had recovered the body of the swimmer, identified as 35-year-old Nikolas Tomasevic. According to an online fundraiser organized by the victim’s friends and family, Tomasevic was a “best friend, cousin, brother, son,” who “went to do what he loved the most and never came back.”
Friends remembered him as a “kind, selfless, decent, human being” who was a member of the San Francisco Dolphin Club — an open swimming club centered at Aquatic Park.
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“The Dolphin Club was his happy place and he left us doing what he loved the most, swimming in the Bay,” the fundraiser said. The fundraiser is seeking to collect funds to send Tomasevic’s body back to Serbia, per his family’s wishes…