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The Contra Costa County Office of the Sheriff announced Sunday that the body of a missing boater was located from an incident on April 28, 2018.
The body was found on Saturday, May 5 at approximately 2:11 pm after Marine Patrol Deputy Sheriffs responded to a report of a body on the levee at False River near the San Joaquin River. Deputies arrived on scene a short time later and recovered the body.
The Coroner’s Division took custody of the male body. He was later positively identified as 39-year-old Johnson Ng of Daly City. Ng is the missing boater who fell from a vessel on April 28, 2018.
On the morning of April 28 at approximately 8:25, Contra Costa County Marine Patrol deputies heard a distress call on the radio. It was reported that two men had fallen off a boat near the Antioch Bridge and were struggling in the water.
Marine Patrol units responded immediately and within minutes arrived on scene.
A deputy located one of the victims who was pulled out of the water by a passing boater. The other boater was missing. The boaters were apparently at the time attempting to set an anchor to fish when their boat was hit by a wake causing both to fall overboard. Both of them were not wearing life jackets.
An autopsy will be held to determine the cause of death.
