FIVE SUBJECTS LEFT PIER SEVEN MARINA ON THE SOUTH RIVER IN EDGEWATER,AACO ON BOARD VESSEL ONE. THEY TRAVELLED TOWARDS THE MOUTH OF THE SOUTHER RIVER. AT THE TIME,SEAS WERE APPROX. 2-3FT AND THE WIND WAS OUT OF THE SOUTHEREAST AT APPROX. 15MPH. ONCE THERE,THE BOAT WAS TURNED OFF AND DRIFTED AND THE OPERATOR AND subject 1 JUMPED OFF OF THE REAR SWIM PLATFORM TO GO SWIMMING. subject 1 BECAME FATIGUED AND STARTED TO CALL FOR HELP. operator MADE AN EFFORT TO SWIM TO HIM AND PULL HIM OUT, BUT HE WAS UNSUCCESSFUL. THE OTHER INDIVIDUALS ON BOARD ATTEMPTED TO THROW PERSONAL FLOTATION DEVICES AND LINES TO subject 1 TO RESCUE HIM,BUT victim WAS UNABLE TO GRASP ANY OF THEM. A GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS ON A SECOND BOAT(ABOVE LISTED WITNESSES) ATTEMPTED TO RESCUE subject 1 AS WELL.WITNESS  ATTEMPTED TO SWIM TO subject 1 TO SAVE HIM, BUT BY THE TIME SHE REACHED THE AREA THAT HE WAS IN,HE HAD GONE UNDERWATER AND WAS NOT SEEN AGAIN. A SEARCH ENSUED INVOLVED USCG,AACO FD, AND NRP.

ON TUESDAY 28subject 1'S BODY WAS RECOVERED IN THE VICINITY OF WHERE THE SEARCH FOR HIM ORGINALLY BEGUN. HIS BODY WAS LOCATED IN 15-17 FEET OF WATER. THE SURFACE WATER TEMPERATURE WAS 81.9 DEGREES. HIS BODY WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE OFFICE OF THE MEDICAL EXAMINER IN BALTIMORE FOR AUTOPSY.
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