TOWNSHIP C — The bodies of two Vietnamese men from Boston who disappeared Friday while swimming in Lower Richardson Lake were found Tuesday.

Five days after they jumped into the choppy water, Hoang Vo, 26, and Phil Le, 30, were found by Maine wardens using sonar equipment, Edie Smith, Maine Warden Service spokeswoman, said.

She said Tuesday that the bodies were recovered by the Maine Warden Service Dive Team and would be taken from the lake to the Medical Examiner’s office in Augusta for autopsies.

Vo and Le were part of a group of 20 to 25 friends and relatives who rented boats last week at South Arm Campground at the southern tip of Lower Richardson Lake in Township C, Smith said.

The group then drove to their campsite at Big Beaver Island in Upper Richardson Lake in Richardsontown Township, she said.

Sometime on Friday, Vo, Le and two other men took a 14-foot aluminum Lund boat for a ride down to Lower Richardson Lake, where Vo and Le dove into the water and never surfaced, Smith said.

Warden Service investigators determined that the four men had been drinking alcohol and were not wearing life jackets, which were in the boat.

Smith said that on Tuesday, divers were searching at depths ranging from 20 to 100 feet.

Previously, they had searched depths of up to 80 feet in a 70-acre grid. What was challenging for the searchers, Smith said, was not knowing exactly where Vo and Le decided to go swimming.

“It’s been very frustrating,” she said, “because it’s a combination that these people were not familiar with the lake, they weren’t actually familiar with boating and they were intoxicated. So, finding what we call the PLS — the point last seen — has been very challenging.”

The surface temperature of the water at the time was 75 degrees and 3-foot waves were cresting under a west-northwest wind, warden Lt. Kevin Adams said Monday.

The five-day search was conducted from the lake, the air and along the shore and islands.

Smith credited Andover firefighters and Med-Care Ambulance for assisting with the search and Salvation Army volunteers for providing food and beverages throughout the operation.

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