Alaska State Troopers report that a team of divers have located and recovered. the remains of the of the 79-year-old Haines man, Thomas McGuire, from Chilkat Lake on Friday.

McGuire was reported missing on February 6th at around 4:00 PM. after he failed to return from ice skating on Chilkoot Lake where he had gone skating alone. His vehicle was located in a parking lot near the lake.

The Haines Volunteer Fire Department and Alaska State Parks responded to search the lake but the ice was deemed unstable and the search was suspended.

A dive team from the Alaska Dive Search Rescue and Recovery Team  would later be dispatched to the lake on Wednesday by AST and at around 10:30 am on Friday McGuire’s remains were found and retrieved from the water.

His next of kin have been notified.

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