ON MONDAY, AUGUST 26TH AT APPROXIMATELY 5:00 PM, operator AND HIS WIFE LAUNCHED THEIR 10 FOOT LONG , ALUMACRAFT JON BOAT AT OAT RAMP #17 ON CANYON LAKE AND THEY DROVE APPROXIMATELY 1000 FEET OUT WHEN THEIR WEIGHT SOMEHOW SHIFTED ALL TO THE LEFT WHICH CAUSED THE VESSEL TO CAPSIZE.  OPERATOR AND OCCUPANT WERE ABLE TO GRAB ON TO THE TWO LIFE JACKETS THEY HAD ON BOARD AND THEY PUT THEM ON AND THEN GRABBED ON TO THE OVERTURNED BOAT.  THEY WERE IN THE WATER FOR APPROXIMATELY TWO HOURS BEFORE SOME ONE ON THE LAND HEARD THEM SCREAMING AND CALLED 911 TO REPORT THE ACCIDENT.  CANYON LAKE FIRE/EMS LAUNCHED THEIR RESCUE BOAT A LOCATED THE SCOTTS AND RECOVERED THEM FROM THE WATER.  NEITHER OPERATOR OR OCCUPANT WERE SERIOUSLY INJURED BUT THEY WERE BOTH TREATED FOR MILD HYPOTHERMIA AND VOLUNTARILY RELEASED .  GAME WARDEN RESPONDED TO THE SCENE TO WORK THE ACCIDENT.  NO ALCOHOL WAS INVOLVED AND NO CITATIONS WERE ISSUED.
HANCOCK