READING, Pennsylvania (5 Jan 2005) -- Fire officials say a scuba diver who was searching for a body in the Schuylkill River nearly drowned when she was swept over a dam. Leslie Schlottman of Fleetwood, Pa., was carried over the crest of the Kernsville Dam late Sunday morning as she was helping search for the body of a Schuylkill County man who disappeared Nov. 28. Reading Fire Captain William Stoudt says Schlottman was trapped underwater for about a minute before other divers were able to grab her rescue line and pull her to safety. Schlottman was airlifted to Lehigh Valley Hospital near Allentown. | | The divers were searching for the body of Keith Yoder of Ashland. Yoder's pickup truck plunged into the Little Schuylkill River near Port Clinton on Nov. 28. |
