Search underway for 19-year-old who drowned in Grapevine Lake

Update July 5, 11:30 a.m.: The Grapevine Fire Department said on Thursday morning that they're still searching for the 19-year-old who drowned after falling off a sailboat on Tuesday night.

"Crews searched the lake all day July 4th and returned to the lake this morning around 8:00 a.m.," the department posted on Facebook. "Today, the Texas Game Wardens will deploy their towable sonar to aid in the continued search."

Original story:

GRAPEVINE — A 19-year-old man drowned in Grapevine Lake on Tuesday night, according to the Grapevine Fire Department.

The Grapevine Dive Unit and Texas Parks and Wildlife Game Wardens went to the lake at about 9:30 p.m. on the report of a missing man who had fallen overboard from a sailboat and never resurfaced.

The man, from Flower Mound, was not wearing a life jacket and it's unknown what caused him to fall overboard, the fire department said.

Searchers were at the lake until after midnight Tuesday but were forced to leave because of high winds, darkness and the fact that the sailboat had drifted significantly from the spot where the man fell, the fire department said.

Grapevine Marine units returned Wednesday morning to search the shorelines.

This is the fourth drowning at Grapevine Lake since Mother's Day weekend.

This story was originally published July 4, 2018 at 1:42 PM.