Operator and daughter took a 20-minute trip on the water, then operator started to rig the lines for fishing while daughter operated the vessel. Once he was done with the rigging, she went up front to lay on the boat.  About an hour later, she heard a splash and her father yelling her name and telling her to turn the boat around.  Daughter attempted to steer the boat around, but failed due to the fishing lines and the single prop.   Daughter attempted to cut a life jacket loose to throw it, but could not get it loose.  She then connected the ladder and jumped into the water. She made contact with her operator/father and grabbed onto him and tried to swim back to the vessel but, she later explained, he either could not swim or was stopping her from pulling him in as he was severely sturggling to stay afloat. At this point, operator/father yelled to her to swim back to the boat. Daughter stated her father was attempting to swim to the vessel but was struggling. Once daughter got back to the boat, she yelled over the marine radio and then grabbed her cellphone to make calls to family.
After that she attempted again to get a life jacket loose and was successful and threw it out to operator/father, but she could not see him anymore.  Daughter also stated that her father was on top of the water for about two or three minutes when he first went in.  He did not know how to swim.
Good samaritan heard the call and came to assist, turned off the boat (which was going in slow circles because daughter did not know how to turn it off ) and stayed with daughter until USCG and sheriff came. Sheriff later transported boat and daughter to Pigeon Lake boat launch area. 
Side scan sonar operators began side scan recovery operations till 10:00 p.m.  No recovery was made. It continued at 7:00am the next morning.  Also the MPS dive team started searching the next day afternoon, and USCG helicopters searched for missing man.
Dive operations were stopped because of weather and then resumed on June 8, 2010, and suspended on June 11.
Body was not recovered.
City of Port Sheldon          