Man drowns swimming at Lake Tahoe

A 42-year-old man from Southern California drowned today in Incline Village.

The name of the man from Carson has not been released pending notification of family.

He was about 50 yards from shore when he started struggling to stay afloat, Washoe County sheriff’s Sgt. John Hamilton said.

“Someone from the beach swam out and got him off the bottom,” Hamilton told Lake Tahoe News

He was put on a raft and brought to shore. An off-duty nurse started CPR, but the man died at the beach July 28 just before 5pm.

Hamilton estimates the depth of Lake Tahoe at this area near Diver’s Cove is 10- to 15-feet deep.

— Lake Tahoe News staff report