The body of 24-year-old Hawthorne man who plunged off the Tappan Zee Bridge last week has yet to be recovered, police said, and authorities are scaling back search efforts.

"Right now there are sporadic boat patrols," explained Jospeh Becerra, an investigator with State Police based in Hawthorne. Beccera said there is no set timetable for calling off the search, but dive teams and helicopters have not been used since last Thursday, when police said the efforts had become a recovery, not a rescue.

"We are hoping for a recovery to give the family some closure," Becerra added.

And a recovery is a matter of course, officials say, even if it takes months—while currents, temperature and the jump location all play a role, "the river eventually does give up the body," Becerra said.

The jumper, Scott Uzzo, was a Westlake High School graduate who played on the gridiron while a student. In a report published on Lohud, Uzzo is described as a man who recently lost his job with the Greenburgh water department, and who struggled with drug use.