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July 10, 2008

Update: Man's body discovered near shore in Tiverton

TIVERTON -- A man's body has been discovered near shore in the Riverside Drive area in Tiverton, according to the Coast Guard.

Tiverton Fire Chief Robert Lloyd said the department received a 911 call at about 10:30 a.m. from the head chef of the Boathouse Restaurant, who reported seeing a floating object in the Sakonnet River.

Firefighters retrieved the body of a male adult just south of the restaurant, in the area of Riverside and Poplar drives, after river currents brought it onto shore from 300 yards offshore, Lloyd said.

The medical examiner’s office is working to identify the body, Lloyd said.

Annemarie Beardsworth, a spokeswoman for the Office of State Medical Examiners, said the office anticipates it will have an identification tomorrow.

Officials have not said if it is the body of a missing Connecticut man who, according to the Coast Guard, fell off his sailboat Monday near the northern entrance to the Sakonnet River. The Coast Guard yesterday said it had ended its search for the man.

Bernard Mochan, 65, of Clinton, Conn., had been sailing with his wife on the 32-foot Elizabeth when the vessel’s boom hit him on the head and he fell overboard. He wasn’t wearing a flotation device.

-- With reports from Journal staff writer Meaghan Wims and Journal archival reports

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