18-year-old dead after cliff jumping at Skaha Lake

The B.C. Coroners Service is investigating after an 18-year-old from Kelowna died after jumping from a popular cliff-jumping area at the southeast end of Skaha Lake.

According to a written statement from RCMP, the young man jumped from 33 metresabovethe lake's surface on Friday at around 4 p.m. PT and did not resurface.

Officers from Penticton RCMP, RCMP Air Service, and members of Penticton Search and Rescue searched the area but did not find the teenager's body.

His body was eventually recovered by the RCMP Underwater Recovery Teamon Saturday just after 7 a.m. PT Saturday.

Skaha Lake is located south of Penticton in B.C.'s OkanaganValley.