RedactedNarrative: WCO heard the Sioux Falls PD Dispatch tone out a drowning at Covell Lake in Sioux Falls. WCO was the 3rd Officer on scene. WCO observed life guards from an adjacent pool rescuing a male victim O1. Officers were informed of a O2. O2 was under the water and the remaining life guards were attempting to rescue O2. 
  
  V1 and V2 were observed floating and partially underwater on the lake. Witnesses on shore described that O1 and O2 were on kayaks (V1 and V2) without PFD’s. 
  
  O1 and O2 were messing around and splashing each other. O2 overturned O1 in V1. When O1 was in the water he overturned O2 in V2. Both O1 and O2 hung onto their V1 and V2 for a couple minutes and did not yell for help. 
  
  O1 decided to swim to shore but did not make it real far. O2 also decided to swim to shore but did not appear to be a good swimmer and did not make it as far. 
  
  The owner of the V1 and V2 stated she loaned them out to O1 and her son (who was not on V1 or V2). Owner stated she gave them one PFD with instructions to wear it and that she would go get a second one. Owner stated she found a PFD on Facebook and was en route to get it when she received the call that O2 drowned. 
  
  The Owner's son (W1) was a witness from shore. W1 and O1 stated that O1 and O2 were paddling on the lake before they started to splash each other. O2 flipped V2 in the process. O2 told O1 that if he was in the water that O1 should be in the water as well and proceeded to flip O1 V1. O1 knew one kayak started to sink and thought the second one would also sink. 
  
  O2 started to swim to shore, which O1 followed. When O1 reached O2, O2 pulled O1 underwater to try and keep himself afloat. O1 ended up pushing O2 away as he was starting to swallow water. Next thing O1 remembers are the life guards pulling him out of the water. 911 calls were made by people on shore when O1 and O2 started to call for help as they were swimming. Nearby life guards heard the calls for help and attempted to rescue both O1 and O2. One life guard had a hand on O1 and O2 but O2 was combative with the life guard so he let go. O2 never re surfaced. O2 was located by sonar and removed from the water at approximately 11:38pm.
  