ON 08/11/09 AT APPROX. 0930 HRS.  VESSEL 1 WAS FISHING ALONG GREEN GLADE COVE WITH 3 POB.  OPERATOR/VICTIM WAS SEATED IN THE BOW WHEN A FISHING ROD'S LINE BECAME SNAGGED. ROD WAS PULLED OVERBOARD.  OPERATOR/VICTIM IMMEDIATELY JUMPED OVERBOARD TO RETRIEVE THE ROD.  UPON ATTEMPTING TO SWIM BACK TO VESSEL 1, HE WAS UNABLE TO DO SO AND CALLED FOR HELP.  WIND HAD PUSHED VESSEL 1 FURTHER AWAY FROM VICTIM.  AN OCCUPANT OF VESSEL 1 JUMPED IN TO ATTEMPT A RESCUE.  HE WAS UNABLE TO KEEP THE VICTIM AFLOAT AND EVENTUALLY HAD TO LET GO OF THE VICTIM TO SAVE HIS OWN LIFE.  NEITHER THE VICTIM NOR THE OCCUPANT WHO ATTEMPTED RESCUE WAS WEARING A PFD.
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