RedactedNarrative: On December 16th, 2021, I Game Warden while finishing a vessel patrol on Lake Lanier had just entered the “No Wake Zone” at Bald Ridge Marina when I received a call from my supervisor Sgt. about a drowning that had just occurred near my location in Bald Ridge Creek. 
  
  I looked up the address he gave me, and it was indeed just a short drive to a large ski cove that was adjacent to Bald Ridge Marina. I went to the cove and immediately saw a bass boat floating in the cove with no one on board and the engine cowling sitting at the stern on the boat. 
  
  A man shouted at me from a dock across the cove and waved me over to his dock. The witness told me that he had observed the man… I then got the witness into my boat and had him tell me where he observed the victim go down. 
  
  I made a waypoint on my onboard GPS and then went and spoke to another witness who had seen and heard the man screaming for help. The witness was on the opposite side of the cove fishing when he heard and saw the man in the water shouting for help behind the bass boat.  I took the witness back to his dock and began coordinating with Sgt. about the recovery process. The boat was secured and taken by Forsyth County Fire boat back to Mary Alice Beach Park and put on its trailer. Sgt. then met with family of the man believed to be missing. 
  
  The man was identified as a 46-year-old man who had stated that he was going to fish and work on his boat that afternoon. The boat contained various fishing equipment and aside from the engine cowling being off the motor had no damage or deficiencies. 
  
  The body recovery phase lasted through Thursday evening and resumed all day Friday- Saturday and was completed when on Sunday morning the body was recovered with the departments ROV. The body was turned over to Forsyth Fire Department. In conclusion on Dec 16th 2021 at approximately 1715 victim fell out of his boat and after short struggle drowned in Lake Lanier.
  