RedactedNarrative: At approximately 13:33 on 9/13/2018 a fishermen located a small Monarch aluminum bass boat, TN2421EE, adrift and unattended on Ft. Loudon Lake in Knox County Tennessee.  The vessel was located approximately 830 meters downstream from the ramp at Carl Cowan park along the Norhshore of Ft. Loudon lake.  Once Subject found the vessel he noticed numerous signs that there had been a fisherman on board recently and immediately called Knox County 911.  
  
  Knox County Sheriiff''s department contacted TWRA dispatch as well as sent a deputy to the scene.  Upon arriving on scene at approximately 13:38 Knox County Sherriffs Deputies contacted TWRA in order to better guide TWRA resources to the scene.  TWRA arrived on scene at approximately 13:45 and began assessing the scene.  Once on scene the state of the vessel and statements by the fishermen who located the vessel, indicated an occupant had likely fallen overboard while fishing.  
  
  The vessel contained fishing rods not stowed, food, the victims cell phone, as well as recently caught fish in the livewell.  Registration information was used to determine an address and an officer was sent to the address and was able to speak with family who relayed that a victim had left that morning around 07:00 to go fishing and had not been heard from since.  At this point divers from KCSO were dispatched to the scene as well as an ROV unit from Blount County Sheriffs Department and an ROV from TWRA.  At approximately 18:40 a body was located by TWRA using the ROV.  The medical examiner was notified and dispatched to the scene.  At approximately 19:33 the body of victim was recovered by Knox County Sheriffs Department divers with the Knox County Medical examiners present.  The body was released to the Knox County Medical Examiners Office in order to perform and autopsy to determine the cause of death.  For further details regarding KCSO response reference KCSO report # CAD-1076.  For further information regarding Knox County Medical Examiner findings reference report #180913-264.  Knox County Medical Examiners Autopsy report included in the case file shows the cause of death to be drowning.
  