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Body Found in Waters Off of Tiverton

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Story Created: Jul 10, 2008 at 7:14 PM EST

Story Updated: Jul 10, 2008 at 7:22 PM EST

TIVERTON, R.I. (AP) - Firefighters in Rhode Island have retrieved the body of a man found floating in the Sakonnet River not far from where a Connecticut sailor fell overboard this week and went missing.

Tiverton Fire Chief Robert Lloyd said a chef noticed a floating object while opening a waterfront restaurant Thursday morning and called 911.

Firefighters pulled the body from the water. Lloyd said the state medical examiner and police from the Department of Environmental Management are trying to identify it.

The Coast Guard spent three days this week searching near the junction of the Sakonnet River and Mount Hope Bay for 65-year-old Bernard Mochan of Clinton, Conn., who fell off a sailboat Monday and went missing. The search was called off Wednesday.

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