RedactedNarrative: According to operator statements made at Rhea Medical Center on 9/3/2019:
  
  Operator was traveling downstream on his PWC near the Armstrong Ferry portion of Chickamauga Lake.  He was in the "backwater" near the Armstrorng Ferry Unit of Hiwassee Refuge.  He was following two friends on their PWC''s through the area ( Operator stated he cannont remember/ doesent know their names). Operator ran his vessel aground.  Operator stated that he hit a wave from one of the other two PWC''s he was traveling with and that the wave forced his vessel to travel to the left running aground.
  