PAGE, AZ -- National Park Service rangers says they rescued four people from Salt Lake City from a sinking cabin cruiser on Lake Powell.
The Park Service dispatch at the Glen Canyon Recreation Area says it received a distress call Sunday afternoon from the people aboard the boat and took two children and their grandparents onto their vessel.
They say attempts were made to save the cabin cruiser, but it sank.
Investigators say that while the family was boating in the Padre Bay area, the cabin cruiser struck a submerged object -- possibly a rock -- outside the marked channel.
The operator continued upstream about 2 miles before he realized the boat had been damaged and was taking on water.
The Park Service says salvage efforts are under way to recover the cabin cruiser.
