Police Identify Man Who Drowned At Ramapo Reservation Thursday
25-year-old Emerson man listed swimming as an interest on his LinkedIn profile
Bergen County Police have released the identity of a man who drowned in a Reservoir at the Ramapo Reservation Thursday afternoon.
Daanish F. Khan, a 25-year-old man from Emerson, died Thursday afternoon after swimming in the restricted Upper Lake area of the MacMillan Reservoir, Bergen County Police Lt. Jim Mullin said Friday morning.
According to Khan’s LinkedIn profile, he was an Operating Room Support Coordinator at NuVasive, a medical device company with a location in Paramus. Representatives from NuVasive said they could not release any details about Khan’s employment there. Khan was a 2009 graduate of Rutgers University, his profile says.
Interests he listed on the professional networking site include learning languages, traveling, doing community service, playing soccer, and swimming.
According to police, Khan was swimming with his girlfriend, a woman in her 20s from Jersey City, and a dog Thursday afternoon. A bystander called police when “the woman and the dog made it to the other side of the lake, but didn’t see him anymore,” Mullin said.
The county’s Water Search and Recovery team conducted a water search in the MacMillan Reservoir and located Khan’s body at about 4:55 p.m., Mullin said. The search began as a “rescue” but changed to a “recovery” during the over two-hour search, he said.
The woman was “very distraught, but not injured,” he said.
Swimming in the restricted area is “a big problem,” Mullin said. “Lots of people go there to swim even though it is clearly posted, and county police units and [park patrols] go up there to tell people not to. But, people ignore the signs.”
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Rizvi Amir Abbas Syed
3:18 pm on Friday, September 14, 2012
About Daanish (he wrote this on his profile)
There are a million ifs in a man's mind and not one in his actions.
-Tomar Re
Life is too short to focus on differences between people. Instead, we should be focusing on the preservation of mankind and this world we live on. There are 9 areas we should be attacking:
-Disease
-Poverty
-Malnourishment
-Malnutrition
-Pollution
-Insufficient Resources(including clothes)
-Hygiene
-Homelessness
-Depression
-Civil Strife
Hopefully, the first 9 issues would bring people together as humans and eliminate the last remaining problem.
-The act of emulating God's infinite passion and
kindness to fix society and invoke the desire to
preserve and protect His creations. "You do not
see in the creation of the All-merciful any
imperfection. Return your gaze....It comes back to
you dazzled."(67:4)
-The center of this emulation is driven by passion
and rational thought. People often fail at thinking
rationally due to their attachment to their
emotions(sadness, hate, love, etc.). The only emotion that should come into
play when making a decision is compassion for one
another.
-Conscious intolerance and ignorance is simply unforgivable.
-Reach for the unattainable.
-If quitters never win and winners never quit, then those who never win and never quit are Daanish Khan.
NDW
7:00 pm on Friday, September 14, 2012
Beautiful words from a beautiful mind gone too soon. RIP.
hsr
7:39 pm on Friday, September 14, 2012
What part of NO SWIMMING did they not comprehend? Oh, that's right, that's for other people. It's a big mistake. I feel bad for the family. Sorry for their loss.
Andy Schmidt
10:39 pm on Saturday, September 15, 2012
HSR, no reason to inflict pain on the family with such a statement. Sometimes people just die - WITHOUT anyone/anything being at FAULT - including the deceased. Kids die during football or baseball practice, even professional athletes die mid-game on the soccer field.
You never know if a physiological condition (either known to the victim, or even previously undiagnosed), may have lead for this siwmmer to get into trouble.
All you can really state for certain is, that the indident would NOT have occurred at THIS particular lake, if the swimming restriction had been respected. Other than that - there was a couple who enjoyed swimming, thus packed their bathing suits and decided to take their dog walking and and for a swim someplace. If they had gone to some OTHER body of water in some other county or state park, the outcome may STILL have been the same.
Thus far therre has been nothing in the reports, that the conditions at Mac Millan Reservoir were a factor. So I would caution against assigning blame on anyone. Yes, they should NOT have been swimming there - but their choice of location on that day may not really have been responsible for the outcome.
Jack
1:59 pm on Saturday, September 15, 2012
RIP Daanish. You will be forever missed.
07430
5:09 pm on Saturday, September 15, 2012
It's a terrible tragedy. My thoughts go out to their family and friends. Does anyone know how and why he drowned? In his Linkedin profile it says that one of his hobby is swimming so he knows how to swim. Is the upper lake known for under currents?
Andy Schmidt
10:23 pm on Saturday, September 15, 2012
Cheryl, there is a very small brook feeding that lake - in fact, you can stand below the dam and just look at the outflow to see how little water is being moved during this time of year.
Paul K
10:43 pm on Sunday, September 16, 2012
The upper lake has many springs from below feeding it as well as two areas on the far right hand side and left hand side, opposite the dam.. There are no currents. I have swam that area a lot. To venture across the lake can be a chore for novice swimmers. But since he listed swimming as an interest I can only conclude, although this may be a false conclusion, that he was not a novice swimmer. In any case it is truly a tragedy and my prayers go out to his family.
mike
11:50 am on Saturday, September 22, 2012
there are tons of dead trees under that water that can snag you. thats why they tell you not to swim there.l