(Rural Moravia, Iowa) – Sheriff’s officials in southern Iowa’s Appanoose County report a 36-year-old man from Arkansas died following a boating accident, Friday afternoon. The incident happened at around 4-p.m. at Lake Rathbun.  Authorities say the victim – whose name was not immediately released – was on a boat. He got into the water and was hit by the same boat.

Emergency crews searched the area nearly for five hours before finding the man’s body under 14 feet of water. The cause of death is under investigation.