On August 23rd, 2023 between the hours of 1800 and 1900, a single vessel incident occurred on Lake Como a man made private freshwater lake in the Miromar Lakes community adjacent to Florida Gulf Coast University, Lee County, FL. with 13 occupants on board V1. V1 was off and adrift with the wind and water current. The 13 occupants were frequently entering, exiting V1 recreationally swimming in the lake around V1. The victim entered the water from V1's port side bow quarter by doing a back roll over the gunwale. Victim was seen resurfacing and swimming towards V1 and touching the port side before going underwater again. Victim did not resurface and became missing. The remaining occupants attempted to locate victim before calling 911. 
A multi agency search and rescue operation was conducted looking for the victim. On August 24th, 2023 the victim was located by FWC on the lake floor and recovered by the Lee County Sheriff's office dive team. San Carlos Fire Rescue pronounced the victim deceased at 1112 hours.
Alcohol is listed as a contributing factor based on the information received from the Lee County Sheriff detectives' interviews of the occupants and operator of V1. All of them stated the deceased had been consuming alcohol prior to drowning. Lee County did not find the operator to be impaired. 
Lee County Sheriff's Office is the lead agency in the death investigation. 
FWC is lead in the boating incident investigation. Victim was recovered deceased.   Cause of death: Pending ME report  Manner of death: Pending ME report

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