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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A body pulled from the Colorado River has been identified by the state medical examiner's office as that of a man who fell out of a canoe last year.
Authorities say 36-year-old Jody Page of Moab disappeared in a set of rapids last June.
Page's body was recovered last week after a motorist spotted the body floating on the Colorado River near Moab.
The Grand County sheriff's office says Page's body floated nearly 40 miles.
Chief Deputy Curt Brewer says his theory is that Page's body got hung up in an 80-foot-deep eddy or hole in the river and when a strap on his overalls busted the body was set free.
Page's companion survived and was picked up by a rafting party. Neither was wearing a flotation device when their canoe overturned.
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Information from: The Salt Lake Tribune
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