Associated Press - June 30, 2009 12:24 PM ET

MURPHY, Idaho (AP) - Owyhee County authorities say a 15-year-old boy drowned while swimming with friends in the Bruneau River.

The Owyhee County Sheriff Department identified the victim as Garrett Bradshaw, of Mountain Home. Investigators say Bradshaw got stuck in a whirlpool underneath a diversion dam on the river Monday afternoon.

Police say several of Bradshaw's friends tried to rescue him, but were unable to pull him from the water.

Bradshaw is the second teen to drown in southwest Idaho waterways since Sunday.

On Monday, rescue crews in Gem County recovered the body of 17-year-old Travis Jakovac, a student at Caldwell High School, from an irrigation ditch near Emmett.

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