RedactedNarrative: On June 1, 2020, at approximately 1822 hours, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) Tallahassee Regional Communications Center (TRCC) received information of an overdue boater who had launched a vessel from Beck’s Lake at 0900 hours to go fishing and was not heard from since. 
  Victim’ vessel was located by a family member, wrecked, on the east bank of White River in Santa Rosa County.  The vessel was positioned facing north with the forward half of the vessel resting on a log with another log positioned between the transom and motor. The motor was locked in the trimmed-up position with the throttle set to nearly full. The kill switch and lanyard were attached to the motor with the lanyard draped across the tiller handle with the end laying in the bottom of the vessel in the stern.
  Victim’ vessel was recovered for processing. Search and rescue efforts were conducted until Victim was eventually located by a fisherman, deceased, on June 3, 2020 at approximately 0646 hours on White River approximately 1.7 miles downriver from where his vessel was discovered. The manner of death was ruled as an accident. Cause of death was ruled as atherosclerotic and hypertensive cardiovascular disease with a contributing cause of submersion in water. Other used as unknown as there is no evidence to provide insight as to how the incident occurred, it is unknown if the operator fell overboard prior to the vessel grounding.;