UPDATE: The body of a 28-year-old Marysville man was recovered Saturday evening around 7:30 p.m., according to the Logan County Sheriff's Office. 

LOGAN COUNTY, Ohio (WLIO) – A 28-year-old man from Marysville is missing after a canoe overturned Saturday afternoon in Logan County.

Deputies say they received a 911 call shortly after 1 p.m. reporting that a man was canoeing on a pond at Adventure Trails Campground in Bellefontaine with his girlfriend’s 5-year-old daughter when the canoe began taking on water and overturned.

His girlfriend was able to rescue her daughter, but the man went under and did not resurface. Two deputies entered the water and pulled additional bystanders to safety, but were unable to locate the missing man.

Dive teams from Indian Joint Fire and the Columbus Division of Fire searched for several hours using sonar, but the man had not been located as of Saturday evening. He was not wearing a life jacket at the time of the incident. The search is ongoing.

Social media post from the Logan County Sheriff’s Office: 

Updated information referencing the water incident. 

On 09/06/2025 at 13:16 the Logan County Dispatch Center received a frantic 911 call reporting a 28 yr old male who had been out on a canoe, went into the water and had not surfaced. The location was said to be at Adventure Trails campground 3299 SR 540 in Bellefontaine, OH.. Logan County Sheriff's office deputies drove in emergency response, along with Bellefontaine Fire/Ems and Tri Valley Ems who were paged. 

  Upon Dep Core's arrival at 13:23 he radioed that that the male was still unaccounted for and under the water and there were bystanders that had entered the water in an attempt to rescue this male. Dep Core and Dep Finfrock, who had just arrived, removed their duty gear and jumped into the water in a rescue attempt. They swam roughly 30-40 feet out into a large pond where a canoe was overturned and floating away. They were able to bring an adult female and male to the shore, who had jumped in as well in an attempt to rescue the 28 yr old male. Several attempts diving under the water were attempted by Dep Core and Dep Finfrock, but they were not able to find the 28 yr old male.

A Dive Team from Indian Joint Fire had been called to the scene and arrived and began a grid search of the water below. At the time of this report the body of the 28 yr old male had not yet been located after having divers in the water for several hours. Resources from Columbus Division of Fire were contacted for a boat, sonar and additional divers to come to the pond to assist, and were responding from Columbus. 

In speaking with the witness, the adult girlfriend of the 28 yr old male, she advised they were both from Marysville, OH., and had been camping for the weekend at Adventure Trails.  Her boyfriend had taken her 5 year old daughter (he was not the father) out onto the pond on a pleasure ride in a standard canoe. Her daughter began to scream after the canoe began taking on water. Her mother then got into a kayak and paddled out to their location. She was able to retrieve her daughter from the water, however her boyfriend had gone under the water. She reported she thought he was underneath the overturned canoe. She brought her daughter back to shore and then swam out to the overturned canoe. It was at this time that Dep Core arrived and dove out to her, as she had no life jacket on and was now suffering from exhaustion from swimming back to the location of the overturned canoe. The 28 yr old male did not have a life jacket on either when he went into the water. 

When updates are available information will be updated.