On 7/5/2009 I was dispatched to a capsized boat with one person in the water in the area of the NIsqually Delta between Beverly Beach and LYle Point.  Dispatch advised that the person calling in was the person in the water.  OPerator dispatch advised dispatch that he wasin a small 12 foot boat with five horse power motor on it and a wave had overtruned the boat.  Diaptch advised that the lost the connection and could not get back through.

I responded to the area along with the Coast Guard to start a search.  While enroute dispatch advised that a passing boater had picked the subject up and transporting him to the Beverly Beach Marina for treatment for exposure to the cold water.  The Coast Guard cancelled its response to the area, I continued to check on the victim and his boat.

I interviewed the boat operator was being treated by Lacey Fire District Three for exposure at the marina.  I asked the operator what happened he told me that he was on his way back to his vacation property on on Anderson Island from the Beverly Beach area in his 12 foot sears boat with a five horse motor on it when a large wave capsized his boat about one mile he was able to inflate his type five PFD and grab his boat box with his flare gun in and stay with the boat.  OPerator said he shot off two flares with boats in the area and no one responded for help.  P1 said after about 45 minutes the witness spotted him waving his arms for help and pulle dhim from the water.

I interviewed the witness, he told me he was out checking his crab pots when he saw operator in the water.  Witness said he put operator in his boat and transportedhim to shore for medical attention because he was shaking from the exposure to the cold water.

I searched the area fro the small boat with negative results because of the rough water.  I called Operator and advised him that I could not find his boat.  Operator said he would look for it in a few days with a friends boat it should be on the shore in the area by then.
Lacey                         