(Centerville, Iowa) – The Sheriff’s Department in eastern Iowa’s Appanoose County said late Wednesday, that a 17-year-old male had died while swimming at Rathbun Lake. The Appanoose County Law Enforcement Center received a 9-1-1 call at around 6:13-p.m. about a possible drowning near the Buck Creek swimming beach at Rathbun Lake, near Moravia. The caller said the teen was swimming when he went under the water and didn’t resurface.

Law enforcement and emergency crews, including the Appanoose County Water Rescue team responded to the scene and searched the area where the teen was last seen. His body was recovered a little after 7:30-p.m., in about 15-to 25-feet of water. The juvenile male was pronounced dead at the scene by the Appanoose County Medical Examiner’s Office.

The teen’s name was not immediately released. The incident remains under investigation.