‘Prime Chef Masters’ Star Naomi Pomeroy’s Physique Recovered After Deadly Tube Accident

The physique of Prime Chef Masters star Naomi Pomeroy has been recovered lower than per week after her deadly interior tubing accident. 

The Benton County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned on Wednesday, July 17, that individuals canoeing on Oregon’s Willamette River noticed a physique round 10 a.m. and dialed 911. 

Marine deputies with the BCSO arrived on the scene a short time later, and “situated a deceased feminine on a shallow part of bedrock close to the center of the river with about one to 2 ft of water,” in accordance with a press launch. 

The invention was made a few half-mile upstream of Hyak Park between Corvallis and Albany, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned. 

“Deputies launched Naomi to a funeral residence and notified her household of the restoration,” the discharge added.

Pomeroy, 49, was tubing together with her husband Kyle Webster and one different particular person on July 13 when she went underwater and didn’t come again up, Benton County Patrol Lieutenant Toby Bottorff advised native outlet KEZI the next day. 

Whereas her husband and the opposite passenger survived, Pomeroy was not sporting a life jacket on the time. She was presumed useless after search and rescue groups discovered her physique, however couldn’t recuperate her.

Pomeroy is survived by her husband and their daughter August, 23.

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On Tuesday, July 16, Webster spoke with the New York Occasions, saying a department within the water led to the lethal incident. He additionally spoke of her demeanor in latest months.

“Naomi was fairly superior in her understanding of this cool journey we’re on,” he advised the newspaper. “She was extra at peace within the final six months than she ever was earlier than. She mentioned she had carried out the whole lot she was put right here to do.”

Along with showing on Bravo’s Prime Chef Masters in 2011, Pomeroy made her entry into the skilled culinary world on the age of 24 with Ripe Catering in 1999.

Pomeroy additionally opened a espresso store and an intimate restaurant known as Beast, which was later reworked right into a preorder meal market known as Ripe Cooperative, amongst different enterprise ventures. 

In 2013, she and her husband opened their cocktail bar, Expatriate. 

A number of years later, Pomeroy revealed her cookbook, Style & Approach, in 2016. And in June, she opened the frozen custard eatery, Cornet Custard.

“The Bravo and Prime Chef household ship our heartfelt condolences to the household and associates of Chef Naomi Pomeroy. Naomi was a powerhouse chef who made an indelible mark on the culinary business,” Bravo and the present mentioned in a tweet Tuesday.