RedactedNarrative: On april 1, 2015 at approximately 14:00 hrs, two subjects and her son were in a rented paddle boat on lake julian. They were drifting in the cove near the rental docks eating lunch when a sandwich wrapper blew overboard. Subject leaned over the side of the paddle boat to retrieve the sandwich wrapper and began to lose his balance. Subject then grabbed the boat's steering lever, which broke off, and fell overboard. Subject was not wearing his personal flotation device and was unable to swim. The passenger on the paddle boat, jumped in the lake and was assisted by other paddle boaters and lake julian park officials in the recovery of subject. Once subject was on the boat, they began cpr until ems arrived. Subject was then transported to mission hospital in asheville, nc and pronounced dead upon arrival.