Porter Dive Rescue Team responds to Lake Michigan

      At 3:42pm on Sunday, July 12th, the Porter Dive Rescue team along with numerous other dive rescue organizations responded to Kemil Beach in Beverly Shores for a report of a boy missing. Porter Dive Rescue responded with 4 divers and 4 support personnel.
     Porter Dive Rescue deployed it's boat and towed 2 divers immediately after arriving on scene, but unsuccessful in locating the boy. Other Dive Rescue organizations, including Portage, Burns Harbor, Lakes of the Four Seasons, Crown Point, Lake County Aquatics, DNR, with a few more, placed divers in the water immediately upon arrival. Lake County Sherriff deployed sonar in hopes of locating the boy but was unsuccessful. Diving continued until 6:02pm, when dive operations were halted due to worsening tide conditions.
     One of the PFD support personnel was treated for hypothermia after a wave upset their boat and sent him into the water. The firefighter was later released from St. Anthony Memorial Health Center in Michigan City.
     Dive operations continued the next morning and continued all day to no avail.
     The body of DaVante Jackson was recovered from Lake Michigan by Department of Natural Resources officers at 10:22 a.m., three days after he initially went missing.
     Chanell Davis, DaVante's mother, said via phone from her Chicago Heights home she was relieved they found her son and that the family has closure.
     All swimmers are warned that Lake Michigan has proven too many times that it is a dangerous place to swim.