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EXCLUSIVE 'Ms. TayIor,' 26, is identified as the staffer who was paddle boarding with Barack Obama's chef Tafari Campbell in unsealed Secret Service records, that also describe the chaotic scene as agents scrambled to save him

Newly-released Secret Service records show how agents attempted to rescue Obama's personal chef when he fell off his paddleboard in Martha's Vineyard

Campbell's body was found the next morning in shallow water by a rescue boat and investigators soon declared Campbell's death an accidental drowning

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Newly-released records from the Secret Service show the chaotic early moments as agents scrambled to try and rescue Barack Obama's personal chef in Martha's Vineyard, struggling to get a motor boat into the murky water with just 15 minutes of daylight.

Agents tried but failed to get two motorboats on the property working, at least one of them belonging to the Secret Service, before they successfully started a third boat belonging to the groundskeeper.

But it was already too late. Tafari Campbell, 45, never surfaced the night of July 23, and his body was pulled from Edgartown Great Pond the following day.

Judicial Watch, a conservative activist group, successfully sued the Department of Homeland Security to obtain incident reports written by agents and related materials.

The 33 pages are heavily redacted and basically mirror accounts already given by state and local police – that Campbell drowned while paddle boarding.

But some new information was revealed, including the last name of the woman who was paddleboarding with Campbell when he drowned –Taylor.

DailyMail.com previously identified her as 26-year-old Obama staffer. The communications also fill in some details about the rescue and the tragic aftermath.

One agent, John Crunkilton Jr., recalled Campbell and the other staffer leaving the president's residence on their way down to the water.

'They picked up two stand up paddleboards and proceeded to the water on the Edgartown Great Pond,' one agent wrote the following day.

'Approximately 20 to 30 minutes later while in (redacted) I saw (redacted) running toward me from the northwest (redacted) waving her arms frantically at me. I ran out of the booth and met her midway across the lawn directly in front of the residence. She collapsed on the ground and stated that Tafari had drowned.

'She stated that he fell in the water and struggled for a couple of seconds before giving up and sinking underwater,' the incident report continues. 'She had pushed one of the paddle boards toward him but he was unable to grab it.'

He said Taylor, a relatively new staffer, had to paddle about 50 to 75 yards to the shore and then ran through some 'rough bushy area' without shoes to reach the agent, and that 'she stated that she didn't even know whose property she was running on.'

The agent, in his report, stated he notified the command post that someone should call 911, and that he also asked the woman to show him where the incident occurred.

'She said it was too late that he had drowned but she would help,' Crunkilton wrote.

He reported that two fellow agents 'headed down in the car to the boat,' and that one 'attempted to start one of the boats but had difficulties lowering the motor.

'I headed down with (redacted) but told her to continue down and yelled to SA (redacted) and SSA (redacted) that I would run to get the keys for our USSS boat,' he continued. 'I sprinted to the (command post), grabbed the keys and sprinted back toward the boats. A similar issue occurred with the motor on the second boat. We jumped into a third boat belonging to the groundskeeper and it worked without issue.'

He sat up front with Taylor, the other paddleboarder, as she led them to the drowning site, about a quarter mile away.

She explained that Campbell didn't have a lifejacket and was wearing black shorts and a black shirt with no shoes.

'The search commenced approximately at (7:45 p.m.) with the sun setting just after (8 p.m.) so we had little time,' Crunkilton pointed out.