The body of 30-year-old Ernest Severight was found near Kamsack on Sunday morning.

RCMP confirmed to CTV News that crews located his body around 10 a.m.

"It's very emotional when I think about it. When you think of all the people that have love in their hearts and wanted to help," Vern Severight said. They didn't even know Ernest."

Severight had been the focus of a 12 day search after falling into the Assiniboine River and disappearing on April 23. He had last been seen hanging onto an anchored log in the river near the Kamsack Golf Course. Severight was presumed dead after he was lost in the turbulence of the Kamsack Dam.

The water level dropped from day one to day 12,” Sgt. Kirk Badger with RCMP F Division said. “Approximately two feet. That the water level came down in that time frame and combined with how the body works. It just worked in our favour and he was able to come up to the surface.”

Over a dozen groups assisted the Kamsack RCMP and the Cote First Nation in the search efforts to locate Severight.