OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) — Crews are searching for a missing boater in Melton Hill Lake in Oak Ridge on Thursday.
The Oak Ridge Police Department received a report of a missing boater around 4 p.m.
According to witness statements, a man and woman had launched a boat from the Edgemoor Road ramp earlier in the afternoon. The female passenger was dropped off back at the ramp after experiencing engine trouble while the male operator continued to work on the boat.
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The boat was seen empty a short time later after it had drifted onto a sandbar downstream from the ramp…