CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) – A search will resume Tuesday for the body of a 22-year-old man who fell into Lake Michigan while walking with friends on shelf ice at Indiana Dunes National Park.
Indiana Conservation Officer Nicole Baumann said there were five people climbing on the shelf ice and mounds of snow on top of Lake Michigan early Monday evening when they started to hear a cracking sound. They started backing off but one of them fell into the icy lake water as three to four foot waves pounded the shelf ice.
“They did grab a hold of him but they couldn’t pull him up and then they lost him,” Baumann told WBBM Newsradio.
Baumann said divers and a helicopter searched for a while last night. She said “make no mistake about it, when you’re on shelf ice, you are on Lake Michigan not on firm land.”
“I just really strongly encourage people to read the signs and do not go on the shelf ice. It is not really anything to mess around with,” she warned.
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