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The body of Claude Russell Pensinger has been identified almost 25 years after he drowned on an ill-fated fishing trip with his brother. His remains were among several found in Lake Mead last summer.

A fifth set of human remains was reported to the National Park Service on Monday. The remains were at Swim Beach - site of the third and fourth discovery, which a coroner said may be linked.

Four sets of human remains have been found at Lake Mead National Recreation Area since May.

Four sets of human remains have emerged from receding waters of Lake Mead since May 1, as water falls to its lowest in 80 years. On Tuesday the coroner said two sets could be one person.

Three other bodies were found in May and July as water levels continue to drop at the nations largest reservoir.

More human remains had been discovered in the very dry Lake Mead National Recreation Area east of Las Vegas, according to authorities.

A fourth set of human remains was uncovered Saturday at Lake Mead, Nevada, as water levels reach historic lows.

National Park Service officials on Saturday announced the discovery of a fourth set of human remains in Lake Mead, as a man in Spain believes the second set found in May is his father.

The boat - a Higgins landing craft - was previously about 185 feet beneath the surface of the lake, but now rests halfway out of the water.

An American living in Ibiza, Spain, says that the skeletal remains found in a Nevada lake in May could the those of his father who drowned in the lake in 1958 at 22.