Dive teams are still actively searching for a 43-year-old East Falmouth man who presumably drowned Saturday evening in Ashumet Pond, the Cape Cod Times reported.
Mashpee Deputy Fire Chief Thomas Rullo told the Times that witnesses said they saw a man without a life jacket drown in the pond around 5:03 p.m.
According to state police, the man was trying to save another drowning swimmer when he, himself, drowned.
The man has not yet been identified by officials, the Times wrote.
Family and friends of the man at the scene declined to comment when approached by a Times reporter.
This month, four people have been found dead in public bodies of water.
On Thursday, a former Secret Service agent and author was found dead at East Sandwich Beach. On Tuesday, an unidentified man was found dead in a pond behind the Cape Cod Mall.
Additionally, a Centerville man appeared to have suffered a heart attack and was found on Sandy Neck Beach on July 13, and a South Yarmouth man was found in Flax Pond on July 2.
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