RedactedNarrative: On april 3, 2015, two people were camping at the flanner's beach camp site located in new bern, nc next to the neuse river. Weather conditions were sunny, clear, approximately 80 degrees farenheit air temperature, approximately 62 degrees farenheit, water temperature and strong ssw winds 15-25 mph with gusts between 25-30 mph. Sometime after 12:00pm and before 5:00pm, the two launched an intex explorer pro 200 inflatable raft constructed of pvc vinyl and rowed out into the neuse river in order to check a crab pot they had set earlier in the day. They were seated with one person in the front of the raft and one person in the back of the raft. The survivor cannot remember who occupied which specific spot. Despite strong winds, they were initially in calm waters as flanner's beach was the windward shore. 
  
  According to survivor, they had taken a few beers with them and took their time getting to the crab pot. After getting near to the crab pot (n 34.861, w76.9428), strong winds blew them past it and further towards the lee shore across the river. Survivor remembers being blown out into the middle of the river past several visible poles which i believe were channel markers. Specifically marker #11, n34.9996, 2 76.9429. They were able to paddle to a point even with these poles twice but each time became exhausted and were blown back towards the middle of the river. The further they drifted from flanner's beach the rougher the water became with some waves being around 2' in height. They again attempted to row back against the wind towards flanner's beach but survivor lost one of their paddles. While attempting to retrieve the paddle, victim also lost his paddle, which he had set in one of the plastic oar locks on top of the raft's gunwales. Victim then jumped over the raft's port side, to the best of survivor's recollection, in an attempt to retrieve his paddle. The wind pushed the raft with survivor on it away from victim. At some point, victim told survivor he was drowning and survivor said he appeared to panic. Survivor attempted to paddle back to victim using her hands but fell overboard off the back of the raft and the raft then capsized. She proceeded to swim towards victim but he told her to get the raft instead so she turned and swam for the raft. However, strong winds picked the raft up and blew it too far away for her to retrieve. 
  
  Survivor then lost sight of victim and so she began to swim/drift with the wind towards the lee shore which was the shore opposite from flanner's beach. After some time, survivor eventually reached the shoreline somewhere between kendall point and lower duck creek. She then traveled easterly towards lower duck creek towards houses that she could see in order to get help. While traveling down the shoreline, survivor sustained minor cuts and abrasions to her shins from bumping into logs and stumps on and near the shore. She then crossed lower duck creek and was able to summon help around 7:30pm. Search and rescue attempts were mobilized but did not find victim the day of the accident. Search and rescue crews located the raft on the shoreline of live oak bay up river but near to kendall point (n 35.0274, w 76.185). victim's body was later located in the neuse river near the mouth of broad creek on april 9, 2015 (n 35.0476, w 76.9652). 
  
  Victim and survivor were not wearing pfds and there were no pfds on the raft. Both victim and survivor had been drinking alcohol that day. Survivor stated they had each drank one mixed drink in a can, and also consumed several beers (3-6 12 oz cans of beer each). The manufacturer's label indicates the raft was designed to hold up to 2 persons or 264 pounds. The raft was overloaded as survivor weight approximately 160 pounds and victim weighed approximately 170 pounds for a total weight of 330 pounds. Victim suffered from ptsd and also chronic pain in his back and feet. 
  
  Several factors led to the occurrence of this boating incident including the consumptio