Albany Fire and Rescue, as well the Clinton County Sheriff’s Department, was called to Wolf River Marina Saturday afternoon when it was reported a man had jumped into Dale Hollow Lake and not resurfaced.

It was later confirmed that Michael, L. Tweedy, 54, of Albany, had, in fact, drowned and was pronounced dead at the scene after his body had been recovered near the ramp located adjacent to the campground at Wolf River Marina.

The incident is still under investigation by the Pickett County Sheriff’s Department. The incident occurred just across the Kentucky/Tennessee line. Portions of the marina are in Kentucky, but most of the facilities are across the state line in Pickett County, Tennessee.

Pickett County Sheriff Dana Dowdy was also on hand and took over the investigation once he arrived on scene.

“We were notified around 5:30 of an incident in the campground,” Dowdy said. “Sgt. Elbert Conner said a subject had gone swimming and never came in.”

Dowdy said there were several witnesses who saw Tweedy swimming in Dale Hollow Lake just before the apparent drowning.

“One witness said they saw him dive in and swim underwater and pop up, go back underwater and pop up somewhere else, then he went under again and never came up,” Dowdy said. “Our coroner/medical examiner ruled the death as a drowning.”

According to Dowdy, Tweedy was not wearing a life jacket.

Albany Fire and Rescue was on hand to assist in the recovery of Tweedy Saturday afternoon.

“I don’t know what we would have done without them there,” Dowdy said. “They had it all set up with the lights and everything and it made it easier once we started searching for Tweedy.”

Pickett County EMS also arrived on scene just after nine p.m. in order to transport Tweedy from the scene.

Also assisting was the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, Kentucky State Police and the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.

A complete death notice for MichaelL. Tweedy appears this week on page .

Local law enforcement and emergency crews from both Clinton County as well as Pickett County Tennessee, and state Fish and Wildlife Resource Agency officers from both Kentucky and Tennessee worked together last Saturday afternoon and evening to recover the body of Michael Tweedy, an Albany resident, who drowned on Dale Hollow Lake.

According to signs posted at marinas on Dale Hollow, Tweedy was the 134th drowning victim on the lake since it was impounded in 1943.