The man who drowned after jumping off a popular rock cliff at Cleetwood Cove at Crater Lake National Park on Sunday has been identified.
The victim was Sumedh Mannar of India. He was a 27-year old graduate student at Oregon State University, according to Marsha McCabe with the National Park Service.
Late Sunday afternoon park staff received a call that a man had not resurfaced after making the jump. Park staff mobilized quickly according to McCabe and searched the area by boat. Divers were called but it was too late for them to do any searching before darkness fell. On Monday morning, divers found the victim’s body approximately 90 feet straight down below the surface of the lake on a rock ledge.
McCabe said park staff are unaware of any previous drownings in that area, where thousands of park visitors jump into the cold lake every summer and then quickly swim to shore.