RedactedNarrative: OPERATOR 1 WAS OPERATING VESSEL 1 WHILE LAUNCHING VESSEL 1 FROM A SMALL PRIVATE BOAT RAMP. AS OPERATOR 1 GOT VESSEL 1 LAUNCHED IT QUICKLY BEGAN TO DRIFT DUE TO THE BREEZE. AS VESSEL 1 WAS DRIFTING OPERATOR 1 BEGAN TO PANIC DUE TO VESSEL 1 BEGINNING TO FILL WITH WATER. 
  
  A WITNESS TOLD OPERATOR 1 TO STAY IN VESSEL 1 AS FILLING WITH WATER, BUT OPERATOR 1 VOLUNTARILY LEFT VESSEL 1 AND BEGAN TO SWIM FOR THE SHORE. AS OPERATOR 1/SWIMMER BEGAN TO SWIM THEY WENT UNDER THE WATER AND NEVER RESURFACED. OPERATOR 1 WAS LATER LOCATED AND HAD DROWNED. VESSEL 1 DID NOT SUSTAIN ANY DAMAGE FROM THE DRAIN PLUG NOT BEING PROPERLY INSTALLED.