On Sunday August 18, 2013 at approximately 1715 hours, I Game Warden was on boating patrol on Lake Mead. I was in the Calville Bay flat wake zone when a vessel flagged me down in reference to an accident that occurred at Sandy Cove. According to the operator of this vessel, there was a 34'' Nordic boat that was attempting to beach on Sandy Beach amongst a group of other vessels. The operator of the Nordic at the time was not the owner, and this person appeared to be inexperienced with operation of the boat. According to OPERATOR2 as the individual was backing the back it appeared that he panicked and engaged more throttle while still in reverse which caused the Nordic boat to collide with OPERATOR2''S vessel and another. The damage to OPERATOR2''S vessel was the most severe as there was a large crack in the port transom fiberglass and his boat was slowly taking on water. The damage to OPERATOR3''S vessel was less severe and consisted of fiberglass scuffs and a broken rub rail - all along the starboard side of the vessel.

Upon follow-up investigation and interview with the boat owner or the Nordic boat, and the person who attempted to operate this boat at the incident time, I received a different sequence of events. They informed me that the boat was moored to the beach and when the storm hit it was taken from its moor. Operator1 was on board the boat and attempted to start the vessel to avoid a collision. Being unfamiliar with boat operation, all he was able to do was start then engines but not put the boat in gear. By this time the collision had already occurred.
Boulder City