00:00The teenager's body was recovered at the scene in water near Galley Hill Road in Swanscombe, near Dartford, just before
00:073pm on Wednesday.
00:09His death is not being treated as suspicious.
00:13It comes after a number of similar deaths resulting from open water swimming across the country during this heatwave.
00:21London, where the highest temperatures have been felt, saw temperatures climb to a May record-breaking 35.1 Celsius in
00:30Kew Gardens on Tuesday.
00:32In recent days, a number of deaths resulting from water-related incidents have also been reported in South Yorkshire, West
00:40Yorkshire, Cornwall, Hampshire, Warwickshire, Cheshire, Pembrokeshire, Lincolnshire and Lancashire.
00:46Another body has been found in the search for a teenage boy who went missing after he was last seen
00:53swimming at Hawley Lake on the Hampshire-Surrey border on Tuesday afternoon.
00:58Data published by the National Water Safety Forum, or NWSF, on Wednesday showed 202 accidental water-related fatalities occurred last
01:09year.
01:10The majority occurred at inland bodies of water, such as rivers, lakes, reservoirs, quarries and locks.
01:16A spokesperson for the NWSF said that while it is too early to say whether the number of water-related
01:22deaths during this heatwave is unusual,
01:25hot weather often correlates with a rise in accidental drownings.
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