A 14-year-old boy was rushed to Denton Regional Medical Center Sunday night after he slipped beneath the waters of Lake Lewisville.
The boy was fishing with family and friends from an island just offshore at Willow Park Grove in Lake Dallas.
The group made it out to the island in waist-deep water, according to Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife Game Warden Stormy McCuistion. When they returned, they got off track and found themselves in water above their heads.
The boy went under the water and relatives unsuccessfully tried to rescue him, according to McCuistion.
The Lewisville Fire Department dive team arrive on scene first and used a sonar to find the boy.
"He was under water for almost exacly 42 minutes and the water temperature is about 69 degrees right now, so they started CPR as soon as they recovered him and they were doing CPR all the way to the hospital," McCuistion said.
McCuistion told NBC 5 the boy did not know how to swim.
