Man Found Dead Following 3-Day Search After Canoe Flips Over at California Lake

Dominic Rossetti was found on Saturday, Sept. 28 at Donner Lake

A body has been found and identified following a three-day search for a man who drowned after his canoe tipped over at a California lake.

Truckee Police Department Lieutenant Kyle Vickers tells PEOPLE that on Wednesday, Sept. 25, authorities received several 911 calls reporting a canoe that had flipped over in the middle of Donner Lake. Neither of the canoe's two occupants — one of whom was the victim of the incident, Dominic Rossetti — had been wearing life jackets, according to Vickers.

The Truckee Police and Fire Department responded, both deploying boats to the scene. A "nearby windsurfer," who was identified as Rossetti's cousin by Vickers, was able to save one of the two men in the water. "However, by the time they went to help the second person, he was nowhere to be seen," Vickers says of Rossetti, who was 30 years old at the time of the incident.

Vickers adds that the police department started contacting Mutual Aid who had boats, dive teams and technology that could help locate Rossetti.

The search "spanned into a three-day effort," Vickers explains, adding that agencies involved employed "side scan solar technology," along with cadaver dogs and an ROV (remotely operated underwater vehicle) to search deep in the high-altitude lakes. Vickers noted that three ROVs had been deployed at the height of the search.

"We did end up locating the individual beneath the water and [were] able to successfully bring him up to the surface to where he could be recovered," he says, adding that Rossetti was found about 120 feet below the surface on Saturday, Sept. 28.

The Nevada County Sheriff's office then stepped in to offer a positive identification of the body as Rossetti, according to Vickers.

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A GoFundMe has been created for Rossetti, with the organizer noting that he and wife Nina Talmadge, 31, celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary in August.

"Nina’s friends are rallying around her and asking for your support as she navigates the unexpected loss of her husband Dominic Rossetti," read a message on the fundraiser. The couple had been together for seven years and was planning to start a family ahead of the tragedy, per the organizer.

"Nina is now left with a funeral to plan and fund, inevitable extra expenses and all of their bills to pay alone,” the message read. “Your funds will help with all of this plus allow her some time away from the classroom to grieve properly."

PEOPLE contacted the GoFundMe organizer for comment, but they did not immediately respond.

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