RedactedNarrative: On May 30th, 2022, at approximately 1850 Hrs. Tennessee Wildlife Officers responded to the reports of a female going underwater and not resurfacing. Officers responded by land and by water and shortly after the call came in officers were able to contact the callers by patrol vessel. The parties were located less than a mile, north of the Watts Bar Dam on the west side of the river channel. Once officers began to talk to the parties it was learned that four young adults were on an older inboard ski vessel and were participating in water activities. After driving around for a while, they decided to take a break and float around. 
  
  The vessel remained adrift, with the motor out of gear but remaining to idle. The vessel owner and his girlfriend got on the tube to float around the drifting vessel while the other two occupants remained in the idling vessel. 
  
  Shortly after, one of the occupants voluntarily left the vessel and entered the water from the rear of the vessel and held onto the vessels swim platform. One occupant remained in the vessel and was talking to the party that was hanging onto the swim platform. The witnesses could not estimate the time frame that the party in the water held onto the swim platform but at some point, the swimmer pushed away from the vessel to what witnesses stated, “wet her hair”. 
  
  As she pushed back to wet her hair the remaining occupant on the vessel stated that he looked at his phone for a short period of time then noticed that the female did not come back up from wetting her hair. All three remaining parties swam around the vessel attempting to look for the missing party but could not find her. One of the parties called 911 but was not able to accurately describe their location and dispatchers utilized the location he was calling from to direct first responders. The missing party’s body was located below where the parties were drifting at in about 50 feet of water. Her body was then taken to the Rhea County Morgue per the county Medical Examiner.
  
  After the autopsy report come back from the Knox County Forensics Center a full toxicology including testing for Carboxyhemogloben was ordered. The tests came back with no intoxicating substances found within her blood. However, a Carboxyhemogloben saturation level of 54% was discovered. It was determined that the cause of the victims death was drowning with a significant contributing factor of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning.