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Officials said that they found the two bodies of missing teenagers from Utah after eight days of searching, according to a recently published article.

Two Teenagers Went Missing in Utah while Tubing on Lake

18 year old Priscilla Bienkowski, from Saratoga Springs, Utah, and 17 year old Sophia Hernandez, , from Eagle Mountain went missing last Wednesday while they were on Utah Lake which is located south of Salt Lake City, according to a previously published article.

The two teenagers may have been caught up by an intense storm that swept them in in the Lake. Since the report was received, the Utah County Sheriff's office started searching or the two missing teenagers. The Sheriff's office said that the teens probabaly went missing on the West Side of Utah Lake.

Meanwhile, at that time a fisherman found one of the mobile phones of the teenagers ringing and their personal belongings while police officers found the car used by the teenagers nearby.

Officials Believed that the Bodies of Two Missing Girls Are Now Found

The search came to an end eight days since the search for the missing girls began. According to Utah County Sheriff Mike Smith, the bodies of two missing teenagers were already found on Thursday.

Smith said in a report: "On behalf of the sheriff's office and all the volunteers who have helped do this, is express our sincere condolences to the families of these girls."

He also added: "This has been hard for everybody involved. I want to thank the families for their patience with us. It's been stressful on our crews; it's been hard to locate these young ladies and I want to thank them for their patience on that. ... I can't imagine, and never want to imagine, what they're going through."

It was reported that the first body was found by a fisherman on a shore near the jetties by the Lincoln Beach Marina at around 1:30 in the afternoon and three hours after, the second body was found by a pilot with the sheriff's office.

Smith said in a report: "Over the past eight days, there's been well over 1,000 hours of time put into this search. More than 10 boats, 12 wave runners, several helicopters, and airplanes."

The deputies have difficulties in searching for the bodies of the teenagers because of the bad weather. The winds picked up to 20-25 mph and has increased to 50 mph overnight. The water temperature of the lake at that also was 57 degrees.

According to an article a deputy said: "It makes no sense. I'm going to have to digest this and figure out how I would handle a search in the future if one ever happens like this. But we were working the right areas for where our experience said they should have been, and here we end up 6 miles east."

The rescue teams who searched for the two teenagers are Utah State Parks, Wasatch County, Washington County and, Utah Highway Patrol. Despite the efforts made by these groups, it was the weather that made it difficult for them to search the bodies.

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