SON & FATHER WERE FISHING WHEN FATHER LEANED OVER THE SIDE OF BOAT TO WASH HANDS. WHILE WASHING HIS HANDS, THE SEAT BROKE LOOSE, LOST HIS BALANCE & FELL OVERBOARD. SON WAS UNABLE TO PULL FATHER ABOARD THE BOAT SO HE HEADED TOWARD SHORE WHILE FATHER HELD ONTO THE SIDE OF BOAT. FATHER WAS UNABLE TO HOLD ONTO THE BOAT SO A PASSING BOATER ENTERED THE WATER AND SWAM-ESCORTED THE VICTIM TO SHORE. JUST BEFORE REACHING A DOCK NEAR SHORE VICTIM COLLAPSED. CPR WAS STARTED FOR THE VICTIM, WHO WAS UNCONCIOUS. VICTIM WAS THEN TRANSPORTED TO HOWARD YOUNG MEDICAL CENTER IN WOODRUFF. CORONER DETERMINED VICTIM HAD INJURED HIS BACK FROM FALL OVERBOARD & WAS POSSIBLY PARALIZED FROM THE CHEST DOWN WHILE IN THE WATER. CORONER RULED DEATH AS DROWNING FROM AUTOPSY THAT FOUND LARGE AMOUNT OF WATER IN THE LUNGS.
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