AT APPROXIMATELY 2:00 PM ON JULY 17, 2010, O/O1 AND P1 WERE FISHING OFF OF A SUBMERGED ISLAND AT EAST WHITLOCK IN WHITLOCK BAY ON LAKE OAHE. WHILE PULLING CRANKBAITS, P1'S LURE SNAGGED BOTTOM. O/O1 PUT THE VESSEL INTO NEUTRAL AND ATTEMPTED TO UNSNAG THE LURE. WHILE O/O1 WAS ATTENDING TO THE LURE, THE WIND BLEW THE VESSEL IN BEHIND THE ISLAND. AFTER FREEING THE LURE, O/O1 REALIZED THE VESSEL WAS IN SHALLOW WATER, AND STARTED THE MOTOR. O/O1 PUT THE MOTOR INTO GEAR TO MANEUVER OUT OF THE SHALLOW WATER NOT REALIZING HE WAS IN BEHIND THE ISLAND. O/O1 NAVIGATED HIS BOAT TOWARD AND ONTO THE ISLAND. THE LOWER UNIT OF THE VESSEL STRUCK THE ROCK ISLAND AND BROKE THE SKEG OFF OF THE LOWER UNIT. THE PROPELLER WAS DAMAGED AS WELL AS THE GEARBOX AND SHAFT INSIDE THE LOWER UNIT. 

NO ONE WAS INJURED DURING THE INCIDENT.
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