WINDERMERE, Fla. — Deputies and search crews from the Orange County Sheriff's Office have found the body of Johnny Salomon, 37, swimmer who went underwater while swimming Sunday at Lake Down in Windermere.
Salamon and several others jumped from a boat Sunday afternoon to swim in Lake Down in about 18 feet of water, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
While others swam back to the boat safely, the man shouted for help, then disappeared underwater, deputies said.
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“We were originally just riding around, taking a tour, and then got news of what happened, so, we stopped our tour and started searching like down with them, just trying to find anything, really,” witness Austin Batten said.
Deputies and Windermere police officers arrived at Lake Down around 5 p.m. after they received a 911 to report the man had possibly drowned.
His body was found around 7:20 a.m. Tuesday.
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“Everybody on the boat said he’s an experienced swimmer, that they go to the Keys together, that he’s actually the person that they swim with that goes down and sets the buoys for the fishing expeditions,” Lt. Ken Taylor with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said Sunday.
“The people on the boat seem to think he had some type of medical problem at the time, because they said he’s such a strong swimmer that maybe he had a cramp or some other type of medical issue that we didn’t know about,” Taylor said.
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