Search for Missing Boaters Enters Day Three

Search for Missing Boaters Enters Day Three


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Gene Kennedy ReportingIt's day three in the search for a couple presumed to have drowned in Strawberry Reservoir. Rescuers will try again to find them, and they hope the weather will cooperate.

It should be a little bit better than yesterday's conditions, but the temperature will once again be an issue. It should be about 40 degrees.

Yesterday, conditions were basically blizzard-like. Searchers were literally blown off the lake, so they didn't get much time to look for Steve and Catheryn Roundy.

Search for Missing Boaters Enters Day Three

The couple is from Orem. They were fishing Wednesday when a storm capsized their boat and they didn't make it to shore.

Two other men were in the boat with them. They survived but had hypothermia.

A similar incident occurred three years ago, when Mike Child and two of his friends were dumped out of their boat.

Mike Child/ Boating Accident Survivor: "The only thing I can think of when I was in the water was to hold on long enough to get home to see my family."

But one of Child's friends didn't make it. This survivor says he truly feels for those men and their families.

Child says he still feels guilt over what happened. And he says survivors deal with a variety of emotions for months and years after their accident.

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