ON 4/25/09 AT ABOUT 1600HRS I RESPONDED TO A CALL OF A BOAT SINKING ON SAGUARO LAKE. THERE WERE 6 PERSONS ON THE BOAT AND 5 WERE ABLE TO GET ON ANOTHER BOAT THAT HAD ASSISTED THEM. ONE PASSENGER WAS PICKED UP OUT OF THE WATER BY A DEPUTY AND GIVEN A RIDE TO THE DOCK. I THEN INTERVIEWED THE 6 PERSONS ON BOARD SEPERATLY AND THIS IS WHAT THEY STATED: P1-SHE HAD JUST COME ON THE BOAT FROM BEING TOWED ON A TUBE. SHE THEN SAID THERE WAS WATER IN THE BOAT. SHE STILL HAD ON HER PFD. THE WATER THEN QUICKLY CONTINUED TO COME IN THE BOATAND IT WENT DOWN TRANSOM FIRST. SHE DID NOT KNOW WHERE THE WATER CAME FORM. SHE SAID THEY HAD BEEN ON THE WATER ALL DAY. P2-SHE HAD ALSO JUST CAME IN THE BOAT FROM BEING ON THE TUBE. SHE STATED SHE SAW 9 TO 10 INCHES OF WATER IN THE BACK OF THE BOAT. IN ABOUT 3 TO 4 MINUTES THE BOAT WENT DOWN. P3-SHE SAID SHE WAS ASLEEP AND WOKE UP TO SOMEONE SAYING THE BOAT WAS SINKING. SHE MOVED TO THE FRONT OF THE BOAT. SHE WAS ABLE TO GET INTO THE BOAT THAT WAS ASSISTING THEM. P4-HE SAID THE BOAT WAS DRIFTING AFTER PULLING THE GIRLS ON THE TUBE. HE SAW WATER COMING IN THE BOAT. THE WATER STARTED COMING IN REAL FAST AND THEN THE BOAT SANK. P5- HE SAID AS THEY WERE PULLING THE GIRLS ON THE TUBE HE SAW 6-8 INCHES OF WATER IN THE BACK OF THE BOAT. HE SAID THE PLUG HAD TO BE IN THE BOAT BECAUSE THEY HAD BEEN ON THE WATER ALL DAY. HE SAID THEY WERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE LAKE SO HE WAS SURE THEY DID NOT HIT ANYTHING. HE SAID WHEN THEY NOTICED THE WATER HE TURNED ON  THE BILGE PUMP BUT IT COULD NOT KEEP GET THE WATER OUT OF THE BOAT FAST ENOUGH. OPERATOR STATED THAT THEY HAD NO PROBLEMS WITH THE BOAT ALL DAY. HE THEN HEARD THAT THERE WAS WATER IN THE BOAT. HE SAW ABOUT A FOOT OF WATER IN THE BACK OF THE BOAT. HE TRIED RUNNING THE BILGE, BUT COULD NOT GET THE WATER OUT FAST ENOUGH. HE STATED THERE WERE DRIFTING AT THE TIME. THE TRANSOM SANK AND HE HOOKED A ROPE TO THE EYE OF THE BOAT, BUT THE ROPE BROKE AND THE BOAT WENT DOWN. HE SAID HE HAD 2 OR 3 BEERS TO DRINK. operator WAS GIVEN A PBT AT 1727HRS AND IT SHOWED HIS BAC OF .088. HE WAS NOT CITED DUE TO THE FACT THAT NO ONE WAS ACTUALLY OPERATING THE BOAT AND HIS IMPAIRMENT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ACCIDENT. NOTHING FURTHER.
MESA                          