{"id":408419,"date":"2026-08-16T21:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T21:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/408419\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T21:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T21:32:11","slug":"divers-recover-body-of-36-year-old-swimmer-from-joe-pool-lake-after-overnight-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/408419\/","title":{"rendered":"Divers recover body of 36-year-old swimmer from Joe Pool Lake after overnight search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/071826-joe-pool-drowning-lv_00.00.01.50.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas &#8211; Emergency responders recovered the body of a 36-year-old man from Joe Pool Lake on Sunday morning following a search that began after he vanished underwater the previous evening, fire officials said.<\/p>\n<p>   Body recovered from Joe Pool Lake <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The incident was reported around 5:15 p.m. Saturday when a witness saw the man jump from a boat to swim and fail to resurface. Fire department officials noted that he was not wearing a life jacket.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Members of the Grand Prairie Public Safety Dive Team conducted a search Saturday evening until nightfall suspended operations. Divers returned to the water Sunday morning and located the victim&#8217;s body.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Dallas County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office will release the man&#8217;s identity pending official identification and notification of next of kin.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The fatality marks the third drowning at Joe Pool Lake this summer, according to the Grand Prairie Fire Department, which urged visitors to always wear a life jacket or personal flotation device when swimming or boating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article is from the Grand Prairie Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/grand-prairie\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grand Prairie<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas &#8211; Emergency responders recovered the body of a 36-year-old man from Joe Pool Lake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,581,1279,223,216,393],"class_list":["post-408419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-dallas-county","tag-grand-prairie","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408419","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=408419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}