RedactedNarrative: On March 6th, 2022, at approximately 1640 hours Tennessee Wildlife Officers responded to a call of an unknown trouble on Watts Bar Reservoir. The caller advised 911 dispatchers that they could hear parties in the water close to Sand Island that were screaming for help. 
  
  As first responders arrived on scene, they had pulled two parties from the water that were in the stages of hypothermia. First responders and bystanders both pulled out a third person from the water that was unresponsive. The unresponsive party was taken by Tennessee Wildlife Officers via their patrol vessel to the shore on the Meigs County side of the river where the party was pronounced deceased by medical personnel. 
  
  The deceased party was wearing a personal flotation device during the incident however, the personal flotation device was not properly fastened up and was only buckled with the bottom buckle. 
  
  As Wildlife Officers also arrived on scene there was a green canoe located near where the parties were located that they stated they came from. Once all parties were removed from the water Wildlife Officers went back on the water to look for the vessel, but the vessel had sunk and was unable to be located. 
  
  As the other two parties began to warm up and were no longer in fear of hypothermia Officers began to interview them and it was learned that the parties were in a canoe and due to the high wind and waves the vessel capsized. The parties had stated that they were trying to go to Sand Island until their canoe capsized. The deceased party was taken by ambulance to the Rhea County Medical Examiner’s office. The incident occurred in Rhea County.
  