A 27-year old man drowned while retrieve golf balls at the Las Colinas Country Club at 4400 N. O'Connor Road in Irving.
The incident happend on June 24th at around 9:30 p.m.
Tha man was hired to retrieve golf balls from the water traps around the golf course.
An employee of the Club noticed that the man had been gone for several hours and went out looking for him. Near the eighteenth green he saw the man's breathing apparatus floating in the water and noticed that the engine that supplies the air was not running. The employee knew something had gone wrong and called 9-1-1.
The Irving Fire Department responded and located the man submerged in the water deceased.
"I don't really know what happened," Las Colinas Country Club General Manager, Stephen Salzman said. "The water is not that deep in that pond." He said the pond was only five feet deep in some areas. "Something catastrophic must have happened."
The victim has been identified as Christopher Logan, a 27-year-old from Lewisville, Texas
Logan is survived by a wife of six years and a 3-year-old son.
Jennifer Logan told Fox 4 News that her husband had taken the part-time job with a friend's golf ball retrieval business because his primary employer cut his work hours. He was scuba certified, she said.
"He was just trying to do what he had to do to provide for his family," she told Fox 4 News. "He enjoyed doing it and it was the perfect situation, you know, for him to be able to make extra money and still be home at a decent hour at night."
OSHA investigators are now looking to see if equipment failure played a part in his death.
