RedactedNarrative: UPON MY ARRIVAL, AT 15:13 I LOCATED OWNER/WITNESS ON THE BOAT RAMP NEAR THE WATER. OWNER/WITNESS EXPLAINED THAT HE AND HIS SON WERE IN HIS BOAT 12 FOOT JON BOAT WITH GAS MOTOR, AND DECEASED WAS FOLLOWING THEM IN HIS BOAT A 10 FOOT JON BOAT WITH A GAS MOTOR. AS OWNER/WITNESS ROUNDED A CORNER A GOOD DISTANCE DOWN THE RIVER FROM THE LANDING HE NOTICED HIS FATHER WAS NOT BEHIND HIM. OWNER/WITNESS WENT BACK UP THE RIVER AND LOCATED DECEASED'S BOAT APPROXIMATELY 200 YARDS SOUTH OF THE WW BRIDGE OVER THE WISCONSIN RIVER NEAR A LARGE ROCK AND A SMALL ROCK. OWNER/WITNESS DID NOT SEE DECEASED IN OR NEAR THE BOAT, HE ATTEMPTED TO REMOVE THE BOAT FROM THE WATER BUT HE EXPLAINED THERE WAS TOO MUCH WATER IN IT TO REMOVE IT.
  OWNER/WITNESS LEFT THE BOAT AND BEGAN TO CIRCULATE THE RIVER FOR HIS FATHER, HE CALLED 911 AFTER A FEW MINUTES OF UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPTS. MARATHON COUNTY DIVE TEAM WAS PUT ON NOTICE INITIAL AND THEN CALLED OUT WHEN PATROL DEPUTIES WERE UNABLE TO LOCATE DECEASED OR SIGNSOF HIM EXITING THE RIVER. MULTIPLE ATTEMPTS WERE MADE TO USE DECEASED'S CELL PHONE GPS SIGNAL TO LOCATE HIM HOWEVER THE NEAREST IT WAS SHOWING WAS CTH-U, AND IT WAS OLD HISTORICAL DATA. FOR THE FOLLOWING TWO DAYS DNR, AND MARATHON COUNTY RECREATION DEPUTIES CIRCULATED THE AREA IN AN ATTEMPT TO LOCATE DECEASED. ON 07/31/2021 I COMPLETED THIS FORM AND DECEASED HAD NOT BEEN LOCATED.
  UPDATE 8/1/2021 BODY WAS RECOVERED.