{"id":387202,"date":"2026-07-26T19:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T19:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/387202\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T19:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T19:44:08","slug":"search-crews-recover-body-of-missing-swimmer-from-lake-travis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/387202\/","title":{"rendered":"Search crews recover body of missing swimmer from Lake Travis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lake-Travis_1460770462768_1188228_ver1.0_640_360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">LAKE TRAVIS, Texas &#8211; Search crews have recovered the body of a swimmer who went missing in Lake Travis on Saturday afternoon, according to the Travis County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>   Body recovered from Lake Travis <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Deputies with the sheriff&#8217;s office lake patrol responded at 12:05 p.m. Saturday to a 911 call reporting that a man had gone under the water and failed to resurface on the northwestern side of Point Venture.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Initial rescue attempts were unsuccessful, and officials transitioned the search to a recovery operation shortly before 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Deputies used side-scan sonar and a remotely operated underwater camera system to scan the area where the man was last seen. During the early evening hours, searchers found the victim at a depth of 114 feet. Divers with Morgan\u2019s Point Resort later recovered the body.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Authorities said there is currently no indication of foul play. Out of respect for the victim&#8217;s family, officials are not releasing his identity.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Multiple agencies assisted in the search effort, including Texas Game Wardens, the Lower Colorado River Authority, Travis County Fire Rescue (ESD 1), Travis County Parks, and STAR Flight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article is from the Travis County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/travis-county\/austin\/lake-travis\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lake Travis<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/travis-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Travis County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article LAKE TRAVIS, Texas &#8211; Search crews have recovered the body of a swimmer who went missing in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,9442,223,394,216,393],"class_list":["post-387202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-lake-travis","tag-news","tag-travis-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}