RedactedNarrative: Synopsis: On 4/20/15 at approximately 2112 hours Soldotna Public Safety Communications Center received a report of a flipped canoe floating in Trail Lake. Per the witnesses on scene there was only one known occupant of the canoe. Witnesses stated the operator had been consuming alcohol and was boating in the canoe without a life jacket. An initial search that evening by area firefighters and troopers was unsuccessful. The operator was seen paddling it 15 minutes before the initial 911 call.  AST spokeswoman said Tuesday that nobody reported seeing the canoe flip Monday night. 
  
  “A canoe’s been found, a paddle’s been found,” spokeswoman said.  Poor visibility, malfunctioning dive gear and searcher exhaustion were slowing efforts to find a missing Nevada man as a search entered its third day Wednesday, Alaska State Troopers spokeswoman said. Water temperatures in the lake were about 35 degrees, causing dive regulators used by search and rescue divers to freeze, and limiting the divers to only a few minutes at a time in the water. Visibility in the glacial lake was near zero.