A 32-year-old San Diego man drowned in Newport Harbor over the weekend after he tried to retrieve a cell phone that had tumbled into the water, authorities said.

Mathew Morrow was with friends and family on Lido Isle, a manmade island in the middle of the harbor, Sunday afternoon, Aug. 7, when someone in the group dropped the phone, Orange County sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Scott Steinle said.

Morrow jumped into the water to grab the phone but never came back up, Steinle said.

Sheriff’s deputies were called to the area about 4:40 p.m., he said. Newport Beach lifeguards recovered Morrow’s body from the water just before 5:15 p.m.

Newport Beach Fire Department paramedics attempted to resuscitate him, but he was pronounced dead on the dock, Steinle said.

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