35-year-old swimmer died ‘doing what he loved the most’ in California, friends say

Nikolas Tomasevic “left us doing what he loved the most,” friends said after authorities recovered the avid swimmer’s body from a California ocean park.

Tomasevic, 35, vanished on Saturday, Aug. 23, at San Francisco’s Aquatic Park Cove at Fort Mason near Fisherman’s Wharf, San Francisco police said in a news release.

The police marine unit, dive team and volunteer divers recovered his body near the cove on Tuesday, Aug. 26, officers said.

“Our best friend, cousin, brother, son went to do what he loved the most and never came back,” friends wrote on a GoFundMe page raising money to return his body to his native Serbia.

“The Dolphin Club was his happy place and he left us doing what he loved the most, swimming in the Bay,” friends said, recalling Tomasevic as a “kind, selfless, decent, human being.”

The Dolphin Club is an open water swimming club based at Aquatic Park Cove, KRON reported.

Police ask anyone with information to call 415-575-4444.

This story was originally published August 27, 2025 at 12:14 PM.