RedactedNarrative: On 6/25/2017 at around 11:30 am, Four people began unloading their kayaks on the downside of the collamer dam.  They were parked on the west side of 900 w where a bridge crosses the eel river west of south whitley.  Victim1 observed the dam and advised everyone in his party that he wanted to ride his kayak over the dam.  Victim1 took his kayak over to the top of the dam where they met a second group of people that were going to swim around in the water below the dam.  
  Victim1 launched his green kayak from the south side of the dam from the cement and maneuvered his kayak to the middle of the river around 20-25 yards upstream of the dam.  At this point victim1, who was in a green kayak wearing a type 3 personal floatation device and a helmet, turns and faces downstream toward the dam and drifts to the dam only using his paddle to keep himself pointed downstream.  Victim1 went over the dam holding his arms up in the air with paddle in his hands and over his head.  Victim1 and his kayak went over the dam and the bow of the kayak entered the water first.  
  Upon entering the water victim1 rolled to the portside and capsized his kayak.  Victim1 exited the kayak and began struggling to gain footing due to the boil downstream and the force of the water falling from the low head dam.  The green kayak was rolling and flipping in the water and eventually was submerged.  Victim1, now completely submerged in the water, was bobbing up and down.  Each time victim1 would bob, his head would go under water.  
  Approximately 20 seconds go by from the time victim1 went over the dam when subject1, who was standing nearly 15-20 yards downstream of the boil line, began swimming and jumping his way through the water to assist victim1.  Subject1 struggled to make it through the boil line but was able to stand in the boil.  At this point subject1 reaches out to grab victim1, simultaneously subject1 is pulled underwater and completely submerged by the force of the boil.  At this point both subject1 and victim1 are bobbing up and down in the low head dam.  Approximately 1 minute and 46 seconds after victim1 and his kayak entered the dam and flipped into the water emergency 911 was contacted.  The time of the call was 11:59 am.
  During this time subject2 had entered the water near the boil line and was able to grab ahold of both victim1 and subject1 and he pulled them to shore.  The first responder to arrive on scene was a volunteer firemen from cleveland township fire department.  When responder arrived he observed a male subject floating in the water and subject2 out attempting to get the other male out of the water.  He assisted subject2 and got the second male subject to shore.  He began cpr on subject1 until a pulse was located.  More cleveland township first responders arrived on scene and began cpr on victim1.  The samaritan helicopter from parkview regional medical center was called and arrived on scene to transport both victim1 and subject1 to the hospital.
  
  The scene-
  The incident scene was at collamer dam just west of south whitley on the south side of the eel river.  The location by means of address is 5995 s 900 w south whitley, in 46787.  The collamer dam is a 'low-head' dam that stretches the width of the eel river.  The eel river downstream in north manchester, in gages the river at 5.56 feet where a minimum flood stage is measured at 9.0 feet and moderate flood stage is measured at 11 feet.  At the collamer dam on the down-stream side of the 'boil line' it is approximately 3 feet in depth, at the boil line the depth is approximately 4.5-5 feet in depth.
  Current disposition:
  Both victim1 and subject1 were transported and in critical condition.  Victim1 was pronounced brain dead.  In this report, the injury record for the bystander has been removed.