RedactedNarrative: Operator and Occupant were in a15'' Gheenee boat below Center Hill dam. The dam was under generation and sluice. Operator wanted to fish near the dam on the sluice gate side. When they got close to the rough water near the sluice he decided it was too rough and turned around and headed back toward the ramp. Waves came over the side of the boat and swamped the boat. The boat sank. Occupant was able to swim to the bank on the left side near the spring. Operator was carried by the current toward the dam and clung to the dam wall near the sluice gate. The boat was sucked into the sluice current and slammed into the short wall in front of the sluice gate. A fisherman near by saw the woman on the rocks and heard her yelling.  He took his boat and went to the woman and took her back to the ramp then went back and rescued Operator from the sluice gate and took him to the ramp.  boat was a small jon boat. The sluice gate and generators were shut off by the Corp. Operators'' boat was recovered in two pieces.
NameOfBodyOfWater: Caney fork river
NearestCityTown: SMITHVILLE                    