ON 7/26/09 AT APPROXIMATELY 5 P.M. A SUBJECT WAS IN A VESSEL, LA 4248 EM, AND WAS TRAVELING WEST IN LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN IN ORLEANS PARISH WHEN HE HAD MOTOR TROUBLE AND THE VESSEL WOULD NOT START BACK UP AT A LOCATION NEAR BAYOU ST JOHN. THE SUBJECT STATES THAT A VERY LARGE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHED AND CREATED VERY STRONG WINDS AND LARGE WAVES AND STARTED PUCHING THE BOAT TOWARDS THE SEAWALL. THE SUBJECT STATED HE PLACED A LIFE JACKET ON AND WHEN THE VESSEL WAS ABOUT CRASH INTO THE SEAWALL, HE JUMPTED OVER INTO THE WATER AND SWAM TO THE SHORELINE, UNINJURED.  THE VESSEL THEN REPEATEDLY CRASHED AGAINST THE SEAWALL AND TOOK ON WATER UNTIL IT SANK AN SHORT TIME LATER.  SGT  DISCOVERED THE VESSEL ON 7/31/09 WHO DETERMINED THAT THE VESSEL BELONGED TO OPERATOR 1. SGT  MADE CONTACT WITH OPERATOR 1 WHOM INFORMED HIM ABOUT THE DETAILS OF THE INCIDENT.
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