Wife of Operator of Vs #1 called Allegan County Sheriff Office to report her husband missing.  Operator had gone out from Lake Macatawa on his PWC and into Lake Michigan.  He was a very good swimmer, and an expert jet skier.  Allegan County Sheriff Office notified USCG Lake Michigan Sector.  A search was begun by police, firefighters. air station Detroit,and others but suspended when it got dark.  Friends believed he simply had gone home, but his car and trailer were found in the parking lot where he left it the day before. Debris from the PWC was found and identified as being from the Operator and Operator's PWC.  The Ottawa County Sheriff's Office reported the individual was recovered within a crevice on the Holland breakwall, within the search area, in the rocks, above the waterline on October 17.  PWC was not recovered. : The exact cause of death is unknown.  The weather being bad it could be that he hit the breakwall with his PWC, since debris from the PWC was found and since the victim was found in a crevice of the breakwall.  It could have been that, because of the bad weather the victim was ejected from his PWC and drowned.  The debris from the PWC could have been that it later his the breakwall.  
It is obvious he perished in the water, but unclear if it was from trauma hitting the beakwall or falling overboard and drowning.
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