RedactedNarrative: On 4/17/14 at approximately 5:20pm, i received a report of a possible boating accident that occurred on belews lake at the duke power hot water discharge (hot hole.) A fisherman had located fishing poles, clothes and belongings on the floating barricade at the mouth of the hot hole. After that evening there were two individuals identified as missing, a boat located adrift against the bank and a vehicle at the pine hall access area. The two individuals' bodies were found at separate later dates and were reported deaths by drowning. 
  
  I responded to pine hall access area and met with stokes county deputy. Deputy informed me that a fisherman had located some personal items on the barricade at the hot hole that contained some drugs and that it appeared persons may be missing or drowned. I accessed the hot hole by land through duke power property shortly before Deputy arrived in a pine hall fd boat that had been dispatched. There were two sections on the barricade that contained clothing and personal effects of two different individuals. It appeared that both individuals had pulled off all clothing down to their underwear and left wallet containing money, cell phone, sunglasses and a pill bottle containing a small amount of marijuana. Search and rescue efforts began and i contacted wildlife officer for assistance to bring a patrol boat. I drove around the lake to carolina marina where a command center was being set up for rescue efforts. Shortly after i arrived at the command center, a rescue boat located a boat adrift against the bank a short distance from the recovered personal items. With information from the personal items and the boat information, it was determined that two individuals were missing and unaccounted for. The two individuals were reported to be friends who worked together and had left early the morning of 4/17/14 to go fishing at belews lake together. I met with wrc officer woods at pine bluff access and patrolled by boat to the location of the found boat. The boat was found to be a ranger bass boat. The boat owner was reported to be a roommate to victim1 and that they had gone in together and purchased the boat. The boat was run aground bow first with only the trolling motor aground holding it in place. The boat appeared as it had just been stepped off of, three fishing poles were laying out on the bow of the boat with one laying with end over the port side, lure had been retrieved to tip. Tackle box, plyers, fishing lures and thermos with coffee also laying on bow of boat unstowed. Trolling motor had a foot control and was off when found, but was operational. Boat was in neutral and key was in off position. Inspection of the boat all safety equipment was found on board. Fire extinguisher was found to be charged and unused. Pfds were located in the rear starboard compartment. Two type iii vests with type iv on top of them. On top of the type iv vest was a thin plastic bag containing several separate bags of plastic fishing baits, some of the plastic bait bags were laying loose on top of the type iv pfd beside an empty hennessy cognac bottle. Rear live well contained one empty 12 oz. Natural light beer can and 3 full cans of natural light beer and an empty styrofoam coffee cup floating in the water. 
  
  The rear port side compartment contained 12 pack bud light beer 12 oz. Cans empty and put back in card board packaging, 4 natural light beer cans full in bags, 1-20 oz.mtn dew, 1 plastic tackle box and 1 spool of fishing line. The depth/fish finder was on and displayed a depth of 5 feet and water temp as 69 degrees f. Keys to the vehicle located at pine hall access were located under the console in floor of boat. Officer drove the boat back to pine hall access at the request of stokes county sheriff's department, turned it over to stokes county detectives investigating the incident. The personal items recovered were taken by stokes county Deputy. The barricade located at the hot hole is approximately 115 yards l