OPERATOR OF VESSEL ONE WAS OPERATING HIS 16' FLAT BOTTOM VESSEL UPRIVER WHILE WATERFOWL HUNTING WITH TOW OTHER PASSENGERS/HUNTERS. THE PASSENGERS SHOT AT TWO GEESE NEAR THE MIDDLE OF THE RIVER AND WERE ANGLED APPROX NINETY DEGREES TO PICK UP THE BIRDS. THE WIND WAS BLOWING UPRIVER AND WAVES BEGAN COMING INTO THE VESSEL FROM THE STERN. THE THREE MEN MOVED TO THE BOW OF THE VESSEL WHEN THEY NOTICED THE SWAMPING BUT THE VESSEL QUICKLY SANK. THE SURVIVING PASSENGER GRABBED A TYPE III PFD AND PUT IN ON.  THE OPEARATOR GRABBED A TYPE IV THROWABLE CUSHION. THE CASUALTY VICTIM GRABBED ONTO THE DECOY BAG FULL OF DECOYS. THE DECOY BAG WAS UNTIED AND THE DECOYS SCATTERED.  SURVIVING OPERATOR AND PASSENGER WERE ABLE TO BACKSTROKE TO THE BANK BUT THE CASUALTY VICTIM WAS LAST SEEN BY OPERATOR GOING UNDER WITH ONLY HIS HAND STICKING UP OUT OF THE WATER. ONCE THE SURVIVORS REACHED THE BANK, THEY REMOVED THEIR WADDERS AND RAN TO THE NEAREST HOME WHERE THE HOME OWNER CALLED 911. THE VESSEL WAS OVERLOADED WITH THREE PASSENGERS, GEAR AND A DOG. NO PFD'S WERE BEING WORN OR USED AND ALCOHOL WAS NOT A FACTOR NOR SUSPECTED IN THIS FATAL ACCIDENT.
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