ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) — Sheriff’s officials say a recovery team has retrieved what is believed to be the remains of a man who drowned in the Flaming Gorge Reservoir 15 years ago.

Forty-three-year-old Richard D. Herren of Green River fell out of a boat while fishing with his wife and a family friend on May 4, 1997. Rough conditions kept searchers from finding him.

But this past April, a team using sonar and cadaver dogs found a body at a depth of 130 feet.

On Tuesday, a recovery team retrieved the body.

The Sweetwater County coroner says a routine autopsy is scheduled Wednesday in Loveland, Colo.

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