ROANE COUNTY, Tenn. — A 19-year-old's body was recovered from Watts Bar Reservoir just after 2:00 a.m. Sunday.
According to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, Roane County resident Braeden Hartup had jumped from a boat and didn't come back up. Hartup and 10 others were on an anchored pontoon near the Winton Chapel Access Area.
Witnesses told 911 that Hartup wanted to swim, and jumped into the water from the front end of the boat without a life jacket on.
Officers with TWRA and other local agencies used a remote-operated vehicle to recover his body, which was then taken to the Knox County Medical Examiner's Office.
TWRA is still investigating.
This is the eighth boating fatality this year.
