A story of a drowning bear and its rescue at Lake Tahoe by a Russian man named Ivan Stepanov has gone viral on social media.

Did a Russian visitor named Ivan Stepanov rescue a tranquilized bear that was drowning in Lake Tahoe? No, that's not true: ...

Social media posts credited an Ivan Stepanov with rescuing a drowning bear in Lake Tahoe. In reality, Adam Warwick rescued a drowning bear in Florida.