A group of rafters on the Colorado River had a shock on Thursday when they came upon a floating body. The Grand County Sheriff’s Office issued a press release on Thursday stating that “earlier this afternoon at approximately 12:37 p.m. rafters floating on the Colorado River located and reported a deceased male approximately two miles upstream from the Westwater Ranger Station in Grand County…The rafters secured the decedent to their raft and floated down driver to the Ranger Station. Once at the Ranger station the decedent was secured to the boat ramp and they awaited the arrival of law enforcement.” Law enforcement officials arrived to investigate and the body was transferred to the Utah Medical Examiner’s Office.
