TWRA searching for missing boater on Chickamauga Reservoir
The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is searching for a missing boater on the Chickamauga Reservoir Friday night.
Published: Jan. 15, 2021 at 8:30 PM EST
HIXSON, Tenn. (WVLT) - The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is searching for a missing boater on the Chickamauga Reservoir Friday night.
Crews were called to the scene around 5:30 p.m. after a call about an overturned boat with three onboard came into dispatch.
Officials said they found one of the boaters, a man, on shore, and they found another boater, a woman, along a bank. Both were transported to the CHI Memorial Hospital in Hixson for cold water immersion symptoms.
As of about 7:30 p.m., crews were still looking for the third boater in the water with sonar.
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