<p class="title">A 27-year-old Indian student has drowned after jumping off from a recreation spot into the Crater Lake in the US state of Oregon, authorities said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sumedh Mannar, jumped off the "Jumping Rock", a popular recreation spot at the lake on Sunday around 4:40 pm (local time) and did not resurface, Marsha McCabe, a spokeswoman for Crater Lake National Park, was quoted as saying by the Oregonian newspaper.</p>.<p class="bodytext">McCabe said the cliff Mannar, a graduate student at the Oregon State University, had jumped from was about 25 feet high.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The cliff was not a prohibited area for jumping, she said, adding that officials have not yet determined exactly why he drowned.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In the summers, the surface of the lake warms up to about 15 degrees Celsius, but the average temperature of the lake is around 3 degrees. Swimming is only allowed in the area around Cleetwood Cove and along the shore of Wizard Island.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Immediately after Mannar disappeared, people on the scene threw a life ring into the water, and Crater Lake hospitality staff took a small boat out to the area to help search, she said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Park staff came to the area to help with the search, but choppy waters and poor visibility conditions made the search difficult.</p>.<p class="bodytext">After about three hours of searching and no sign of Mannar, officials called off the search for the night and resumed it Monday morning.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Divers on Monday morning dove in the last known spot Mannar had been seen and found him about 90 feet straight down in the water on a rock ledge. Beyond that point, the lake drops off dramatically to a depth of more than 1,200 feet.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mannar's body was transported to Klamath Falls. </p>
<p class="title">A 27-year-old Indian student has drowned after jumping off from a recreation spot into the Crater Lake in the US state of Oregon, authorities said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sumedh Mannar, jumped off the "Jumping Rock", a popular recreation spot at the lake on Sunday around 4:40 pm (local time) and did not resurface, Marsha McCabe, a spokeswoman for Crater Lake National Park, was quoted as saying by the Oregonian newspaper.</p>.<p class="bodytext">McCabe said the cliff Mannar, a graduate student at the Oregon State University, had jumped from was about 25 feet high.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The cliff was not a prohibited area for jumping, she said, adding that officials have not yet determined exactly why he drowned.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In the summers, the surface of the lake warms up to about 15 degrees Celsius, but the average temperature of the lake is around 3 degrees. Swimming is only allowed in the area around Cleetwood Cove and along the shore of Wizard Island.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Immediately after Mannar disappeared, people on the scene threw a life ring into the water, and Crater Lake hospitality staff took a small boat out to the area to help search, she said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Park staff came to the area to help with the search, but choppy waters and poor visibility conditions made the search difficult.</p>.<p class="bodytext">After about three hours of searching and no sign of Mannar, officials called off the search for the night and resumed it Monday morning.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Divers on Monday morning dove in the last known spot Mannar had been seen and found him about 90 feet straight down in the water on a rock ledge. Beyond that point, the lake drops off dramatically to a depth of more than 1,200 feet.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mannar's body was transported to Klamath Falls. </p>