Shortly after 5:30 p.m. Saturday, deputies responded to the Hacienda Bridge about 4 miles east of Rio Nido. According to witnesses, a man using a rope swing leaped into the river and failed to reemerge. Local firefighters, Cal Fire and a California Highway Patrol helicopter began searching the river for the man.

The body believed to be that of a man who was reported to be using a rope swing to jump into the Russian River on Saturday was recovered, the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office said.

The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office responded on Saturday to the Hacienda Bridge in Forest Hills after receiving reports of a man who used a rope swing to jump into the Russian River and did not resurface.