ESTELL MANOR– State Police divers located the body of a 39 year-old crabber who was ejected in a boating accident Monday morning, according to state police.
The deceased has been identified as Daniel Favretto, 39, of Buena Vista Township. His body was located about one half mile south of Gibson Landing, which is where the boat was put into the water.
The State Police Marine Division had called off the search yesterday due to weather conditions. Members of the state police marine division were using side scanning sonar with the assistance of a helicopter before they had to call off the search.
This morning troopers using boat-towed side-scan SONAR located his body at 9:15 a.m., today and directed the agency’s T.E.A.M.S. divers to the body. Mr. Favretto was recovered at 10:00 a.m. He was declared at the scene by a member of the medical examiner’s office.
Daniel Favretto fell off the family’s 15-foot Carolina Skiff yesterday morning around 11:00 a.m. He and his brother Carlo, 42, of Richland, were on the water to retrieve crab traps when Daniel, who was driving, fell overboard as the boat travelled across the water. Carlo was ejected onto the creek bank as the boat struck land, but he was not injured. Neither man was wearing a life jacket.
The accident is being investigated by Tpr. I Robert Frake of the State Police Atlantic City Station.
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