On 06/06/10 at approximately 1741 hrs operator and his mother , were boating on El dorado Reservoir when operator hit a tree stump under the water surface.  operator was taking his mother over towards a cove to show her where is duck hunts when a storm came in.  operator turned his boat around and started back out of the trees when he hit the tree stump.  When operator struck the stump in knocked a hole into the bottom of his aluminum boat.  The boat started taking on water and they thought it was going to sink.  The butler County Rescue Squad was dispatched to the reservoir to assist with the removal of the people from the vessel.  Once operator and his mother were taken to the Shady Creek boat ramp the vessel was towed in and loaded on the trailer.  In the pictures you can see the water running out of the whole in the bottom of the vessel.
El Dorado                     