On the 8th of August at about 1123 hours, I was dispatched to the boat ramp under IH 35 North for a drowning with the person still in the water. I could see what appeared to be a male under the water about 20-30 feet from the East bank of the Guadalupe River fully submerged with his arms extended upwards and not moving. Two witnesses saw subject 1 in his boat about 20 minutes later they passed again and saw a bunch of brances over hanging and moved his boat toward the unoccupied boat.  (witness) noted that he saw the life jacket was still in boat, the yellow tie off rope was floating in the water and a more careful look reveled what he thought, "was a mannequin floating in the water." witness said they continued South and after some discussion they decided to turn around and investigate it. As he moved his boat using only his trolling motor closer to the blue boat, he realized that it was not a mannequin and was in fact subject 1 underwater.  witness got close enough to see that subject 1's mouth was open and his eyes were open with no physical momvement or signs of life.  Upon completion of the physical body check of subject 1, subject established the time of death 1150 hours and ruled this as an accidental drowning possiby from a medical complication.
Not being able to confirm this, with no autopsy performed, it was later determined to be a boating related water fatality.
New Braunfels                 