Man drowns in Lake Hartwell

A man drowned while trying to secure a boat at a dock on Lake Hartwell early Sunday morning. The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources reports that a man and his wife were on the boat when it started storming and the couple attempted to dock it around midnight. As the man worked to secure the boat, the wind picked it up and the boat started to drift away from the dock. The man then jumped into the water to recover the boat and did not resurface. The Anderson County Technical Rescue Team found the man’s body near the dock in about 10 feet of water around 2:30am. He was identified as 45-year-old Allen Lee Garber. The Anderson County Coroner’s Office stated that alcohol and environmental temperatures were factors in his death. The coroner said water temperatures were about 50 degrees that night.