A man was feared dead Sunday evening after his canoe overturned near Pringle Falls on the Deschutes River.

In chilly temperatures, Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue team worked Sunday evening to find and recover the man’s body.

Lt. Erik Utter of the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office said the 911 dispatch center received a call at 4 p.m. that two men had turned over in their canoe on the Deschutes River.

“They attempted to run the Pringle Falls rapids,” Utter said. “The canoe overturned.”

One man swam to safety, but the other disappeared in the water. Both were wearing flotation devices, Utter said.

Their names had not been released as of Sunday night.

Search and rescue workers on foot combed the area near where the man had last been seen in the water.

Workers searched between Pringle Falls and the Tetherow boat launch and logjam, several miles downstream.

Around 6 p.m. searchers discovered an object that was the same color as something the man had been wearing.

“We believe possibly that could be the victim,” Utter said. “But with the volume and speed of the water, we can’t put someone in to find out.”

The Sheriff’s Office plans to resume the search today, hoping to lower the water level to recover the body.

“We’ve not successfully located anybody out of the water, and we’ve searched from the falls to the Tetherow logjam,” Utter said. “We don’t expect to find a survivor, so we’ll attempt to retrieve the object below the water.”

With unseasonably cool temperatures Sunday, the water was cold, and added to the challenge of the rescue effort, Utter said.

This is the second drowning at Pringle Falls this summer.

In July, 48-year-old Lisa Braughton of Silver Lake died on the Deschutes River after she went over the falls on a 9-foot raft.

Braughton, of Silver Lake, had been camping at the nearby Pringle Falls campground.