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       cayuga generating station reported an overturned boat up against a low head dam in discharge canal that leads to the wabash river. The body a white male was located the discharge canal two days later. Autopsy report findings were cause of death: consistent with drowning, manner of death: accidental. 
  
  Details of investigation/incident:
       on april 16, 2021 at, or about 2:47 p.m. i, indiana conservation officer, received a call from indiana conservation officers dispatch stating that a duke energy employee had observed an overturned boat in a discharge canal. It was also reported there were life jackets and tackle floating on the water. Duke energy power station is located near cayuga in vermillion county, indiana. 
       i spoke with the vermillion county sheriff's dispatch and they advised the boat was up against a low head dam in a restricted area of the cooling water discharge. Indiana conservation officers responded to the area. 
       cpl. Went to the lodi public access site on the wabash river upstream of the duke energy generating station. He reported observing a red, 2014, dodge ram pickup truck and boat trailer. 
       i launched a boat on duke energy property and traveled downstream. As i approached the cooling water discharge canal from the wabash river, i observed a large red and white sign with the words "danger - turbulent waters do not enter." there were two other signs stating "danger - turbulent waters do not enter" along the canal as we moved upstream. 
       i observed a yellow floating boom on the north bank that appeared to have been once stretched across the discharge canal. The boom was not blocking entrance to the canal. I also observed a second floating boom that appeared to stretch across from the north side of the canal to the south side of the canal. There was a 2 foot to 4-foot section of the boom that was not intact and was large enough for a boat to easily cross the boom without restraint. 
       continuing approximately 600 yards upstream from the where the canal joins the wabash river, i observed a structure commonly referred to as a low head dam. Water was pouring over the low head dam. I was later told by duke energy employee that when the boat was first observed they estimated that 256,000 gallons of water per minute were pouring over the low head dam. 
        i observed an aluminum fishing boat overturned and up against the face of the dam on the north side. The boat appeared to be held up against the face of the dam by the force of the water. I also observed two coolers and two red boat fuel tanks being held by the water up against the face of the dam.  
       two members of the clinton fire department were at the scene in a aluminum boat. On shore were vermillion county deputies, cayuga town marshal, members of the cayuga volunteer fire department, and illiana emergency medical services as well as several duke energy employees. 
       deputy contacted danville police department who in turn contacted the family of victim. His wife, stated he had waited for his grandchildren to get on the school bus at 8:00 a.m. he then left the house with his boat to go fishing at the duke energy generating station. She said that he did not go with his usual fishing partner and sometimes he would stay all day. She had not heard from her husband. Ico dispatch confirmed that he had a boat registered to him with registration number, sea nymph, green/tan in color. This matched the description and registration number of the boat up against the low head dam.
       duke energy employees engaged a water pump to help the divert the water from flowing over the low head dam. Ico and i utilized sonar units but proved ineffective as the water was extremely turbid and were unable to get close enough to the target area. As the pumps began to lower the water, we were then able to utilize sonar in the area. 
       ico and i tied a rope onto the bow of the boat and with the assistance of shoreline personnel pulled the boat out of the dam and to the north shore of the canal. The boat was still inverted and later righted, searched, and photographed. The boat was removed from the water later that evening. 
       ico and i began to search the underwater area with a drag bar. As the water continued to decrease in volume and the current subsided, we began to search the area with pike poles. We used the pike poles to feel the bottom for the victim. I located an item on the bottom of the canal that felt inconsistent with the hard surface of the bottom. I utilized scuba gear and conducted an underwater search of the area. I located the item in approximately 18 feet of water and brought the item to the surface. The item was a large cast net that was wrapped tightly into a ball. 
       the search for the victim was concluded at approximately 11:30 p.m. on 04/16/2021.
  
  Saturday, april 17, 2021
  
       ico was assigned to patrol the area in the morning shift and did not locate anything related to the investigation. He advised duke energy employees they could return the water flow to normal levels. 
       later that afternoon i met with vermillion county corner. Coroner wheat requested to survey the area and patrolled along with me for a short time. I searched the underwater area of the canal with sonar. At approximately 8:00 p.m. began to capture images consistent with a human body on the bottom of the canal. I contacted my supervisor. He arrived and met me at the canal discharge. As we began to prepare a dive plan for an underwater search of the sonar target images. Asian carp began to jump out of the water making impossible to continue in safety. We had to cease the search operation at that time. 
       
  Sunday, april 18, 2021
  
       i met with ico sgt. At the duke energy boat ramp and traveled by boat downstream to the discharge canal. As we entered the discharge canal from the wabash river, we moved upstream approximately 80 yards and i observed a human body floating beneath the surface with only the back of the head and shoulders exposed above the waterline. I captured several photographs of the area and of the cadaver. 
       i could see a 2 - 3 inch laceration to the back on of the exterior of the head. The area had some blood seeping from the wound. I could tell the cadaver was that of a male fitting the description of the missing boater. The man was clothed in a denim type coat. Both the skin and the coat were stained with a light coat of brown debris. 
       i contacted ico, dispatch and vermillion county coroner of the recovery.
       i held onto the back of the coat while sgt. And i secured the body with a ¼ inch nylon rope under the arms and around the chest. This portion of the rope was secured to a boat cleat on the bow on the port side. The remainder of the rope was then secured around the cadaver's legs and secured to a cleat on the stern on the port side. Once it was secured, we continued up stream to the area of the low head dam.
       i removed a brown leather wallet bearing a cross from the left rear jean pocket of the cadaver. I opened it and removed the driver's license and state of firearm owner's identification card. I photographed the two items. Both cards bore the name and identifiers. The photograph on the identification cards appeared to be that of the cadaver. The cadaver also fit the identifiers of male, age 64, 5' 10", 180 lbs, with brown hair. Hair length and facial hair were consistent with the ph