Officials shut down part of a Washington state national park while emergency crews work to recover the body of a man they say may have fallen over a waterfall.
The National Park Service (NPS) closed the Sol Duc Falls area for the Olympic National Park Search and Rescue Team after an 18-year-old man fell over the 50-foot waterfall, the agency wrote in a news release.
The park is in the Olympic Peninsula about 124 miles northwest of Seattle.
The fall remained under investigation June 12, but according to witnesses, a man − who officials did not identify − was walking across rocks at the top of the falls June 8 "when he slipped, resurfaced at the bottom of the waterfall, then submerged into the water again. "
The next day, on June 9, a park ranger found "a completely submerged body pinned between the first and second falls," NPS wrote. "It is likely that this is the visitor who fell over the falls the day before. "
