Officer was contacted at his residence at 1830 Hours on May 8, 2010 by Richfield Dispatch and requested to assist with a drowning and a near-drowning at Piute Reservoir.  Officer responded with the patrol boat and worked with Piute County Sheriff's office and SAR team in attempting to recover the victim's body.   Officer used the patrol boat to place buoy markers where the victim went under and then assisted with dragging the lake to recover the body.  The search was unsuccessful and was called off at approximately 0020 hours on May 9, 2010.  Officer also recovered the two PWC's that were the vessels in the incident.  
On May 9, 2010 at 0800 hours Officer returned to Piute Reservoir to assist with the continuation of the search.  At 0849 hours the victim's body was recovered at GPS coordinate N 38 degrees 19.249 and W 112 degrees 11.645.  He assisted with body recovery and also coordinated with the sheriff's office and SAR teams to obtain the needed information for reporting.  

On May 8, 2010 EMS and Piute Sheriff's office responded to the scene and found V2 OPERATOR suffering from extreme hypothermia.  He was taken by ambulance to Sevier Valley Medical Center.  He was released later that evening.  

Below follows the narrative of the incident from witnesses:

Four people were at Piute Reservoir with two PWC's recently purchased.  V2 OPERATOR had ridden out on one of the vessels and it stalled.  Operator1 went out to assist him, riding the other vessel.  Neither vessel would start.  Operator2 remained on his PWC and the wind and wave action pushed him to the north end of the reservoir and the shore there.  He walked back to the launch ramp.  Operator1 abandoned his PWC and attempted to swim to shore.  Other two subjects observed he was struggling and attempted to assist him.  They observed victim to go under the surface and he did not reappear.  This occurred at approximately 1805 hours.    They then contacted 911.

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