ON 7/25/10 AT APPROXIMATELY 6:00PM, (VICTIM) AND HIS WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN WERE AT LAKE WACCAMAW ON THEIR PONTOON BOAT.  THE CHILDREN WANTED TO SWIM IN DEEPER WATER SO THEY MOTORED OUT TO A LOCATION WHERE THE WATER WAS DEEPER.  TWO OF THE BOYS STARTED SWIMMING.  BOTH HAD ON LIFE JACKETS.  ONE OF THE BOYS BECAME PANICKY SO operator JUMPED INTO THE WATER WITHOUT A PFD IN AN ATTEMPT TO HELP.  HE ALSO BECAME SOMEWHAT PANICKED AND COULD NOT GET BACK TO THE BOAT.  wife THREW A PFD TO operator BUT IT FLOATED AWAY FROM HIM OUT OF REACH.  wife TRIED TO MANEUVER THE BOAT BACK TO operator BUT AS SHE DID SO, HE WENT UNDER THE WATER AND DIDN'T COME BACK UP.  SHE THEN CALLED 911.  WHEN INTERVIEWED, wife STATED THAT operator HAD CONSUMED APPROXIMATELY 6 BEERS THAT DAY.  A TOXICOLOGY REPORT IS PENDING TO DETERMINE HIS BAC LEVEL AT THE TIME OF DEATH.

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PFDS WERE WORN BY SURVIVORS BUT NOT BY THE DECEASED
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