RedactedNarrative: On Saturday, July 11th, 2020 at around 12:15pm, Boating Officer1 was notified by phone of a possible drowning on Tims Ford Lake, near Hog Island, (Leatherwood Island).  Subject had been the operator of a pontoon boat that was rented from Holiday Landing Marina.  Operator drove the boat to a small cove near Wiseman Bend and Leatherwood Island and stopped the boat.  
  
  Operator then climbed up on the upper deck of the pontoon and jumped into the water to swim.  The occupants of the boat saw Operator come back to the surface after he jumped in and spoke to him.  They then were not paying attention for a couple of minutes, other individuals jumped in to swim as well.  
  
  After a few minutes, the rest of the group realized that they had not seen Operator for a while and started calling his name and looking for him.  One of the individuals on the boat said that they thought that Operator may have been swimming under the pontoon boat.  
  
  They had thrown out the anchor of the boat when they had stopped originally, but the anchor was not holding the boat and it was drifting in the wind.  After a few minutes of trying to locate Operator, one of the occupants on the boat called Holiday Marina and advised that Operator was missing.  Holiday Marina then notified Officer1.
  
  More TWRA officers as well as the Franklin County Rescue Squad, and Tims Ford State Park Rangers came to the scene.  TWRA and the Franklin County Rescue squad used sonar, divers and an ROV to search the area that was identified by one of the occupants of the pontoon boat as the area where they believed that Operator had disappeared.  
  
  Later, the same individual found a video on his phone that showed when Operator had jumped in.  An attempt was made to pull GPS location data from the video, but it was not successful.  Using the video as a reference, officers continued the search on that evening, into the night.  The search was complicated by many rocks and logs/downed trees on the bottom in the area where Operator had disappeared.  After several hours of searching, the search was called off until morning.  
  
  There were storms and rain in the morning that postponed the search further.  The search was able to resume around 12pm on 07/12/2020. Operator''s body was located in about 30ft of water by TWRA officers with the ROV at around 3:39pm on 07/12/2020.  Franklin County Rescue Squad divers then recovered Operators body.  A Franklin County Sheriff''s Deputy took a blood sample from Operator''s body after it was taken to land and sent the sample to TBI.