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Apparent Drowning on Watts Bar Lake

<i>Santiago Snellgrose, missing on Watts Bar Lake.</i>
Santiago Snellgrose, missing on Watts Bar Lake.

Crews continue searching Sunday for a missing boater in Meigs County on Watts Bar Lake.

Dan Hicks, spokespersons with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, says it was around 1:30 am Saturday, when Santiago Snellgrose, 23, from Athens went overboard.

Crews spent all day Saturday on the lake dragging near Euchee Marina. However it was unclear exactly where Snellgrose went overboard.

The operator of the boat, Will Dodson, 23, of Athens is charged with Boating Under the Influence (BUI).

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