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Body Found In Lake Del Valle Where Salesforce Employee Disappeared

LIVERMORE (CBS SF) -- A body was found Wednesday morning in Lake Del Valle near Livermore where crews have been searching since Friday for a boater who was lost when his boat capsized, an East Bay Regional Park District spokeswoman said.

Authorities could not immediately confirm whether the body found Wednesday morning was the missing boater, identified as Salesforce IT contractor Raghavendra Indugula, 31, of San Francisco.

A fisherman found the body at about 7:10 a.m. floating about a half-mile north of the Lake Del Valle marina, just south of where Indugula disappeared.

Indugula was visiting Lake Del Valle as part of a team-building activity with his Salesforce co-workers. They were being shuttled across the lake in multiple groups at about 7 p.m. Friday when the boat started filling with water, according to park district spokeswoman Carolyn Jones. She said the boat was over capacity when it started filling up.

The passengers jumped from the boat and started swimming to shore, but when they arrived Indugula had disappeared, Jones said.

The water reaches depths of 50 feet where the boaters abandoned ship, complicating search efforts. Crews searched over the weekend and through Monday and resumed this morning after taking a break on Tuesday, Jones said.

Salesforce issued a statement about Indugula's disappearance.

"Our thoughts are with Raghu's family and friends during this time. We are receiving updates from local authorities, but have no further information to share at this time," the company said.

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