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A boater in a dinghy spotted a man’s body floating in Lake Michigan’s “Playpen” area on Saturday and alerted authorities.
The body was discovered around 4:30 p.m. as the Chicago Air and Water Show concluded.
U.S. Coast Guard units monitoring the Playpen arrived at the scene first, and the Chicago Marine Police recovered the body.
A boater in a dinghy spotted a man’s body floating in Lake Michigan’s “Playpen” area on Saturday and alerted authorities.
(Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Spencer Williams, 29, was pronounced dead at the scene, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
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This is the third serious emergency at the Playpen in one week, the Chicago Tribune reported.
One person was left in critical condition on Wednesday after falling off a boat in the Playpen at around 7:30 p.m. that day. Officials are still looking for a second person.
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Spencer Williams, 29, was pronounced dead at the scene, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
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And last Saturday, two women were severely injured in a boating accident when they were sucked into a boat’s propeller. One woman’s feet were severed in the incident while the other lost part of her hand.
One of the women, 34-year-old Lana Batochi, was floating on an inflatable raft when a yacht went into reverse, sucking her raft into the propeller and cutting off her feet. She had to undergo a double leg amputation.
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Saturday’s discovery marks the third serious emergency at the Playpen in one week.
(AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)
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Batochi said she felt “unimaginable pain” when the boat’s propeller sliced her limbs.
“I thought I was dying,” she said in the description of her GoFundMe page. “I fought for my life for seconds which felt like minutes. I began to drown, I couldn’t swim. As soon as I had my head above the water, at a distance I saw my husband’s eyes searching for me in a panic. I would never forget his face of pain.”
