BRAMPTON — Peel Regional Police have recovered the body of man who jumped in to Brampton's Professor's Lake to rescue his daughter Saturday.

Police say the daughter was able to get out of the water safely but the 40-year-old man never made it out. His body was recovered by a police dive team around 5 p.m.

Crews were called to the lake around 11:45 a.m. Saturday after the man disappeared into the water.

Brampton firefighters had a boat in the water and searched for the man most of Saturday afternoon. Peel Police's Underwater Search and Rescue unit was also on scene and assembled a dive team to go into the water late Saturday afternoon.