RedactedNarrative: On 6/18/2021 at approximately 1:50pm, a boating incident occurred on lake norman. The vessel was a 20-foot, 2017 sun tracker pontoon boat with a 60 hp mercury outboard motor. The boat had a starboard side console. At the time of the incident Subject1 was standing on the stern of the pontoon and his wife was in the water at the bow of the boat swimming. Subject1 was filling up a yeti cup at the stern of the boat when the cup fell overboard. Subject1 jumped in to retrieve the cup. He immediately surfaced and started asking for help. He then went face down in the water and became unresponsive. 
  
  The husband and wife had been swimming in the area of island forest drive near the d6 marker. The water temperature was 83 degrees with an air temperature of 87 degrees. Subject1 was in the water at the bow of the pontoon with his wife. He told her that he started to feel like his blood sugar was low. He said he needed a coke and candy bar. Subject1 was a diabetic and this made him feel better according to his wife. Subject1 boarded the pontoon which was adrift at the time. 
  
  At approximately 1:50pm Subject1 was pouring diet coke in his yeti cup. The cup fell out of his hand off the stern of the pontoon. Subject1 jumped in to retrieve the cup. He surfaced and immediately started asking his wife for help. Subject1’s wife boarded the pontoon and threw him a rope, two life jackets and a pool noodle. Subject1 was unable to get to the life jackets and went face down in the water. Subject1’s wife started yelling for help and flagged down a nearby pontoon boat with 4 women on board. The pontoon boat came over quickly to assist. Two ladies jumped in the water to turn Subject1 upright and began to perform cpr in the water. A passenger on board the pontoon called 911 at 1:54pm. At 2:08pm cornelius pd arrived on scene by land. 
  
  Officer from cornelius pd jumped in the water and swam out to where the pontoons where located. Approximately 50 yards from the shore. Officer grabbed Subject1 and swam him to the closest dock. There, he was met by the responding paramedics. They immediately began cpr and lifesaving efforts. Subject1 was transported by ambulance to novant er in huntersville nc. He was there for several hours until they transported him to presbyterian hospital in charlotte nc. Doctors determined that Subject1 suffered a cardiac event that led him to go unconscious in the water. Subject1 was held on life support until 06/22/21. 
  
  When Subject1 jumped into the water to retrieve his cup, he started to undergo a cardiac event. He was unable to retrieve any of the floating objects that his wife threw him. Subject1 went unconscious in the water and was later pronounced deceased as a result of a cardiac event. No one was charged as a result of this incident.
  
  THE OWNER WAS NOT OPERATING THE VESSEL AT THE TIME OF THE INCIDENT.  HE HAD VOLUNTARILY DEPARTED FROM THE VESSEL BEFORE THE INCIDENT OCCURRED.  THEREFORE, THERE WAS NO OPERATOR FOR THE VESSEL AS IT IS STATED IN THE REPORT.
  