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Colorado man missing, presumed dead after jump off houseboat

Bullfrog • Authorities say a Colorado man is missing and presumed dead after jumping off a houseboat north of Lake Powell.

Glen Canyon National Recreation Area officials identify the missing man as 41-year-old Daniel Patrick McGuckin of Avon.

They received a distress call Saturday afternoon about a man going overboard without a life jacket on about 15 miles south of Bullfrog near Iceberg Canyon.

Crews from the National Park Service, Kane County Sheriff's Office and Utah State Parks began a search but McGuckin couldn't be located.

McGuckin's friends say their party of nine was on a houseboat traveling to Bullfrog from the Escalante arm of Lake Powell when he decided to jump off the port side.