Search For Missing Summit Man Continues Monday

By John Patten and Caitlin Mahon

The search for a missing Summit man whose tube capsized in the Delaware River on Saturday continued Monday morning.

Marine Service troopers are on a boat today searching for Gary West, 38, using side scan sonar, New Jersey State Police Spokesman Sgt. Adam Grossman said.

West has been missing since about 1:40 p.m. Saturday when the tube he and his 14-year-old daughter were rafting on the Delaware River overturned. West's daughter managed to float to a Pennsylvania riverbank. 

West and his family were at the Delaware River Family Campground in Warren County before they went into the river with a group of others. West and his daughter became separated from the rest of the group in the river before overturning.
 
State police divers, marine services and aviation crews responded after the report Saturday, searching until about 8 p.m. The teams made three dives Sunday, Grossman said, which ended at 2 p.m.

The Easton Expres-Times reported Saturday Pennsylvania resident Frank DiLeo heard cries from the daughter as she climbed out of the water, and searched for her father to no avail. The article also reported river warnings had been issued to try and keep people out of the water, after recent rains caused the river to rise. 

Patch will update this article as information is available.