Rescue crews resumed their search Saturday morning for the body of a young man presumed to have drowned in Loch Raven Reservoir Friday night.
Dive teams, boats and a county police helicopter began searching Friday for the swimmer, who went missing shortly before 6:30 Friday night, said Elise Armacost, a spokeswoman for Baltimore County Fire Department.
The search ended shortly after 8 p.m. Friday because of darkness and poor weather conditions, she said. It resumed at 6 a.m. Saturday, with Baltimore City Watershed Police Force leading the effort with assistance from the county police dive team.
The man's age and identity had not been released.
Crews were first dispatched at 6:34 p.m. to an area near Loch Raven Drive and Providence Road, where they had to use all-terrain vehicles to access the area where the presumed drowning occurred, Armacost said.
She said an unknown number of swimmers attempted to cross a bend in the reservoir to the north shore when one went under. The water depth in that area, between the Loch Raven Drive bridge and the dam, is about 90 feet, she said.
Swimming is not permitted in the county's three city-owned reservoirs: Prettyboy, Loch Raven and Liberty.