Two men drowned Thursday afternoon while swimming across a northwest section of the Prettyboy Reservoir in Baltimore County, bringing to 16 the total number of drowning deaths this summer in Maryland waters, officials said.

Divers pulled the bodies of Adam Klank, 22, and Justin Smith, 21, both of Shrewsbury, Pa., out of the reservoir at about 7:45 p.m., nearly four hours after the men took off their clothes and set out swimming across a 150-foot span of water, a county fire department spokesman said.

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