HARDIN COUNTY, Tenn. (WTVF) — Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency officials say crews have recovered the body of a second missing boater from the Tennessee River.
The body was recovered around 8 a.m. Wednesday around Shiloh National Military Park and has been sent to the Medical Examiner’s office in Memphis for an autopsy and identification.
The second body was recovered within one mile of the first missing boater recovered yesterday. Both were recovered approximately nine miles from the dam.
Three people were reported missing on Sunday, February 23, after a father, his son and a second teen failed to return from an Obion County club bass tournament.
A preliminary investigation indicates that the boat with 43-year old Kenneth Driver and the two 15-year-old boys was last seen in a picture taken above the dam on Saturday, February 22, between 8 and 8:30 a.m. The three occupants and the 20-foot bass boat went through the floodgates at Pickwick Dam.
Search efforts were concentrated on a 14 mile stretch the Tennessee River for the missing boaters. Over the last 17 days, search crews have been searching for the missing boaters on the Tennessee River. Multiple aviation units have assisted in air searches along the river banks.
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