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Body of Missing Boater Found in Housatonic River
Rescuers find body of 75-year-old Woodbridge man.
Rescuers have found the body of a boater who has been missing since his scull boat capsized on Monday.
The body of 75-year-old of Woodbridge was found in the Housatonic River along Roosevelt Drive. Where the body was discovered was not immediately available.
The body was found between 9:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. Sunday, Fire Chief Scott Pelletier said.
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The discovery comes a day after rescuers held their most intense search - one that included more than 70 people, three boats, cadaver dogs, dive teams and a helicopter — since Fiske went missing Monday morning.
An avid row boater, Fiske checked out a scull boat from the New Haven Rowing Club in Oxford at 10:30 a.m. that day. Someone reported seeing his boat capsized at 2 p.m. that day. He has been missing since.
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Fiske, the principal of a development company based in Shelton, is married and has at least one grown son.
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