FALMOUTH, Mass. (WPRI) -- After nearly two weeks of tireless searching, the pursuit of a missing college student has come to a tragic end.According to Fairhaven Police, the body of 21-year-old Dana Dourdeville of Marion washed ashore in East Falmouth Sunday afternoon.A volunteer civilian search party found the Brown University student between the Cape Cod Canal and Woods Hole, in the area of Penzance Point.Dourdeville was declared missing after he didn't come back from a duck hunting trip off the coast of Fairhaven on New Year's Eve.Search parties consisting of police, fire, the Coast Guard, volunteers, friends, and family spent days scouring the area trying to track him down."We knew we had to cover a lot of ground," said Bill Tilden, a friend of the family. "We covered West Island until we thought we had exhausted it, we'd still go back every day because the tides, you never know what's going to end up at the next tide."Tilden described Dourdeville as an amazing young man, a well-rounded student and athlete with a big heart."He'd just brighten up a room. It didn't matter how bright that room was already, when he walked in he just had that smile on his face, he was always looking forward to whatever his next endeavor was," he added.Police said there was no evidence of trauma, however an autopsy will now be conducted by the Massachusetts State Medical Examiner's office. Copyright WPRI 12 FALMOUTH, Mass. (WPRI) -- After nearly two weeks of tireless searching, the pursuit of a missing college student has come to a tragic end.According to Fairhaven Police, the body of 21-year-old Dana Dourdeville of Marion washed ashore in East Falmouth Sunday afternoon.A volunteer civilian search party found the Brown University student between the Cape Cod Canal and Woods Hole, in the area of Penzance Point.Dourdeville was declared missing after he didn't come back from a duck hunting trip off the coast of Fairhaven on New Year's Eve.Search parties consisting of police, fire, the Coast Guard, volunteers, friends, and family spent days scouring the area trying to track him down."We knew we had to cover a lot of ground," said Bill Tilden, a friend of the family. "We covered West Island until we thought we had exhausted it, we'd still go back every day because the tides, you never know what's going to end up at the next tide."Tilden described Dourdeville as an amazing young man, a well-rounded student and athlete with a big heart."He'd just brighten up a room. It didn't matter how bright that room was already, when he walked in he just had that smile on his face, he was always looking forward to whatever his next endeavor was," he added.Police said there was no evidence of trauma, however an autopsy will now be conducted by the Massachusetts State Medical Examiner's office. Copyright WPRI 12 FALMOUTH, Mass. (WPRI) -- After nearly two weeks of tireless searching, the pursuit of a missing college student has come to a tragic end.According to Fairhaven Police, the body of 21-year-old Dana Dourdeville of Marion washed ashore in East Falmouth Sunday afternoon.A volunteer civilian search party found the Brown University student between the Cape Cod Canal and Woods Hole, in the area of Penzance Point.Dourdeville was declared missing after he didn't come back from a duck hunting trip off the coast of Fairhaven on New Year's Eve.Search parties consisting of police, fire, the Coast Guard, volunteers, friends, and family spent days scouring the area trying to track him down."We knew we had to cover a lot of ground," said Bill Tilden, a friend of the family. "We covered West Island until we thought we had exhausted it, we'd still go back every day because the tides, you never know what's going to end up at the next tide."Tilden described Dourdeville as an amazing young man, a well-rounded student and athlete with a big heart."He'd just brighten up a room. It didn't matter how bright that room was already, when he walked in he just had that smile on his face, he was always looking forward to whatever his next endeavor was," he added.Police said there was no evidence of trauma, however an autopsy will now be conducted by the Massachusetts State Medical Examiner's office. Copyright WPRI 12 Body of missing Brown student discovered Updated: 6 hours ago Body of missing Brown student discovered Updated: 6 hours ago Body of missing Brown student discovered Updated: 6 hours ago wprisemass,se-mass,news,home,video,local,mobile,se mass

• published: 13 Jan 2014
• views: 1