A 24-year-old St. Cloud man drowned Saturday evening after falling off a floating tube on Big Lake.

Big Lake Police and the Sherburne County Sheriff’s Office Dive Team were called to the lake’s swimming beach at around 7:45 p.m. after a witness said they saw a man fall off the tube and go under the water without resurfacing.

Several people went to search for him but were unable to locate the man.

The sheriff’s office dive team eventually found Ashutosh Dahal at 9:30 p.m. in around nine-to-10 feet of water.

Sheriff’s Office spokesman David Unze said Dahal was at the beach with friends and floating on the tube alone when he fell off.

Dahal was an alumni of St. Xavier’s College in Kathmandu, Nepal. The institution expressed condolences to Dahal’s friends and family Sunday. He recently graduated with a degree in computer science from St. Cloud State University.

Unze said authorities reached Dahal’s family in Nepal to notify them of the drowning.