JON BOAT OWNER/OPERATOR AND FRIENDS WERE RECREATIONAL CRUISING AND FISHING ON THE BUFFALO RIVER IN WAYNE COUNTY, TN. THE BOAT CAME UPON A FALLEN TREE AND WAS TURNED OVER AND WEDGED UP AGAINST IT BY CURRENT. ALL OCCUPANTS GOT OUT OF BOAT AND WALKED/WADED OUT OF TREETOP. THE SUBJECTS THEN TRIED TO WALK TO SAFETY. THEY WALKED AROUND AN HOUR AND THEN CAME TO A SWIFT DEEP SECTION OF THE RIVER THAT THEY HAD TO CROSS. AS THEY WERE CROSSING one subject CALLED FOR HELP. subject2 TOLD HIM TO TRY TO FLOAT ON HIS BACK. subject CALLED FOR HELP AGAIN. remaining subjects DID TRY TO GET TO subject BUT COULD NOT DUE TO CURRENT. 

WHEN BODY WAS RECOVERED HE STILL HAD HIS DAY PACK AND TACKLED BOX ATTCHED ON HIS SHOULDERS.
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