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A 27-year-old Indian American student has drowned after jumping off from a popular recreation spot at the Crater Lake in Oregon.

Sumedh Mannar jumped off the "Jumping Rock" on Sunday around 4:40 p.m. (local time) and did not came to the surface, Marsha McCabe, a spokeswoman for Crater Lake National Park, was quoted as saying by the Oregonian newspaper.

McCabe said a graduate student at the Oregon State University had jumped from was about 25 feet high. She further said the cliff was not a prohibited area for jumping. The officials have not yet determined exactly why he drowned.

The average temperature of the lake is about 3 degrees, but in summers, the surface of the lake warms up to about 15 degrees Celsius. Swimming is only permitted in the area along the shore of Wizard Island and around Cleetwood Cove.

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As soon as people at the scene realized Sumedh Mannar disappeared, they threw a life ring into the water, and Crater Lake hospitality staff took a small boat out to the area to help search, she said.

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Though the Park staff came to the scene to help with the search, the choppy waters and poor clarity conditions made the search difficult.

Officials called off the search for the night after continuous three hours of search operation and no sign of Mannar. The searching resumed Monday morning.

Divers on Monday morning dove in the last known spot where Mannar had been seen and located him about 90 feet straight down in the water on a rock ledge. Beyond that point, the lake drops off dramatically to a depth of more than 1,200 feet.

Sumedh Mannar's body was transported to Klamath Falls.

By Sowmya Sangam