RedactedNarrative: ON SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 2021 AT APPROXIMATELY 16:25, A BOATING INCIDENT OCCURRED ON HIGH ROCK LAKE THAT RESULTED IN ONE INDIVIDUAL BEING HOSPITALIZED. THE VICTIM, 49 YEARS OLD, WAS WAKEBOARDING BEHIND A 24' 2018 MALIBU WAKESETTER THAT WAS BEING OPERATED BY OPERATOR, 19 YEARS OLD. THE BOAT HAD 10 PEOPLE ON BOARD AND WAS APPROXIMATELY 0.7 MILES NORTHEAST OF BLACK'S BOTTOMS, TRAVELLING IN A SOUTHEAST DIRECTION AT APPROXIMATELY 12 MILES PER HOUR AT 100% BALLAST. VICTIM HAD NEVER WAKE-SURFED BEFORE AND WAS BEING COACHED BY OPERATOR. AFTER SEVERAL ATTEMPTS, VICTIM WAS ABLE TO GET UP AND BEGAN TO SUCCESSFULLY WAKE SURF. AFTER A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME, THE VICTIM BEGAN TO EXPERIENCE NUMBNESS AND TINGLING IN THE ENTIRE LEFT SIDE OF HIS BODY. HE STATED THAT HE KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG AND LET GO OF THE TOW ROPE. VICTIM WAS WEARING A TYPE III PFD AND AS HE WAS FLOATING IN THE WATER, HE BEGAN CALLING FOR HELP AND STATING THAT SOMETHING WAS WRONG. OPERATOR STOPPED THE BOAT, JUMPED IN THE WATER AND SWAM THE VICTIM TO THE SWIM PLATFORM ON THE STERN OF THE BOAT. 
  
  SOMEONE IN THE BOAT DIALED 911 AND OPERATOR BEGAN DRAINING THE BALLAST SO THAT THEY COULD TRANSPORT VICTIM BY BOAT. OPERATOR STATED THAT THE BOAT HELD ABOUT 500 GALLONS OF BALLAST. AFTER ABOUT THREE MINUTES, THE BALLAST WAS DOWN TO 25% AND HE FELT THAT THE BOAT WAS LIGHT ENOUGH TO MAKE THE TRIP TO TAMARAC MARINA. EMS MET THEM THERE AND TRANSPORTED VICTIM TO NOVANT HEALTH ROWAN MEDICAL CENTER. DOCTORS THERE DIAGNOSED VICTIM WITH A HEMORRHAGIC STROKE AND TRANSFERRED HIM TO NOVANT HEALTH PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL WHERE HE REMAINED A PATIENT UNTIL WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30. THE CAUSE OF THE STROKE WAS HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE. VICTIM HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE AND WAS PRESCRIBED MEDICATION FOR HIS HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE, BUT HE HAD NOT BEEN TAKING IT AS DIRECTED.
  
  ACCORDING TO ALL WITNESSES ON BOARD, THE VICTIM NEVER STRUCK ANYTHING IN THE WATER NOR DID HE FALL OFF THE WAKEBOARD. HE SIMPLY LET GO, SANK DOWN INTO THE WATER, AND BEGAN CALLING FOR HELP. ALTHOUGH THERE IS NO VIDEO OF THIS EVENT HAPPENING, THERE IS AN EXCELLENT SERIES OF PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN BY WITNESS THAT APPEAR TO SHOW THE PROGRESSION OF THE STROKE OCCURRING IN VICTIM. ALTHOUGH ALCOHOL WAS NOT A FACTOR IN THIS INCIDENT, NEARLY EVERYONE ON BOARD HAD BEEN DRINKING. OPERATOR WAS ISSUED A CITATION FOR UNDERAGE DRINKING. NO FURTHER INVESTIGATION IS NECESSARY IN THIS INCIDENT.