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Man dies in boating accident in Cecil Co.

A Delaware man died following a boating accident Friday evening in Cecil County, Maryland Natural Resources Police said.

Robert Vernon Baron, 27, of Bear, Del., fell into the water after jumping from a docking boat onto a pier in Chesapeake City, according to police. The accident occurred around 8:25 p.m. Friday at the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal.

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Two other people could not find Baron after jumping into the water after him, police said. His body was recovered by divers around 10:15 p.m. and taken to the medical examiner's office in Baltimore.

Officials say this is the tenth boating fatality of the year in Maryland.

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