RedactedNarrative: On August 6, 2022 around 2122 hours, a 21 foot Baja runabout vessel with 3 persons onboard collided with a motor vessel pushing barges on the Tennessee River near Bath Springs in Decatur County, TN.   The body of a 57 year old female was found floating immediately after the collision and recovered.   The bodies of a 19 year old and 18 year old were missing. 
  
  Search crews started searching the area with boats and a helicopter.   Some floating debris, presumably from the Baja, was found downstream and recovered.   During a sonar search, the vessel was located around 1100 hours on Sunday.   Divers entered the water and found the bodies of two others inside the vessel.   All dive operations were complete at 1430 hours.   
  
   Preliminary evidence indicates that the 3 persons were on a 21 foot Baja were headed upstream on the Tennessee River while a commercial motorvessel pushing empty barges was going downstream.  The center barge was setback from the outer barges.   As the Baja was approaching while on plane, it made a sudden turn to the left in the path of the motor vessel.   The pilot of the motorvessel put the engines in reverse and sent a deck hand to the front of the barge.   The deck hand reported seeing a white hull on the surface and then disappear.   Another boat found the body of the female and brought the body to shore.     
  
  This is an open investigation by the TWRA and a final report will issued at a later date.
  