Married couple drowns while using inflatable kayak on Salt River

A married couple drowned while using an inflatable kayak on Salt River on Halloween, authorities said.

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office was called to an incident around 1:34 p.m. where a man was yelling that his wife couldn’t swim as they both floated down the lower Salt River.

The wife, 68-year-old Cindy Bowers, went underwater and was recovered by an MCSO FOX1 helicopter and an airboat at 2:11 p.m., authorities said.

Her husband, 59-year-old Anthony Beringer, went underwater and was found upstream at 3 p.m.

The married couple was using an inflatable kayak, and neither one was wearing a life jacket, authorities said.

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