RedactedNarrative: This report documents a single vessel fatal boat accident in which the operator/victim voluntarily left his vessel to assist or retrieve another occupant who was in the water.  At the time of the incident the two juvenile occupants of the vessel were swimming and wearing personal floatation devices.  The vessel was drifting without power.   Windy conditions created distance between the vessel and the swimmers.  
  
  Witness stated the victim jumped overboard in attempt to assist the swimmers.  Witness also stated the victim complained of shortness of breath while in the water and asked her to start the boat to help him.  Witness stated she had never operated a boat and could not get it started.  Witness stated while she was trying to start the boat operator went under water and never resurfaced.  
  
  Recovery efforts began and operator was recovered at 9:55AM on 07-30-2017. 
  
  The coroner''s preliminary report after autopsy indicates the cause of death to be pulmonary dema and congestion due to drowning.
  