On 3/30/13 at 22:15 hours, dubois county central dispatch received a 911 call from a fisherman on patoka reservoir's hoosier hills marina.  The report was that the fishermen had heard screaming for help coming from across the lake.  Two good samaritans went toward to scream to lend assist and found a debris field in the water, 1 person floating in the water, and 1 person standing on the bank.  This was in the area east of the hoosier hills marina, and just west of the patoka lake fisherman's campground.  

The two victims told the good samaritans that there had been 4 people in the boat, and 2 were missing.  

The water temperature was fourty-seven degrees with the air temperature at an estimated fifty-seven degrees.  The sky was cloudy and the reservoir is not well lighted in that particular area.   Raining would set in with-in the hour.

Ico was the first officer on scene and found two survivors in the good samaritans boat.  The two surviving victims were wet and shaking.  Survivor1 had to be assisted in transferring boat because his legs would not make it over the gunwales by themselves. They were immediately transported to shore where waiting sheriff's deputies noticed an odor of alcoholic beverage on their persons.  Dubois county sheriff's deputies offered both men a portable breath test for alcohol.  Survivor1 tested .04% and survivor2 tested .08% bac.  

Recovery operations lasted throughout the night and into the next day for the two missing men.  A search of the water as well as the bank and shore were exhausted. Ico using a hummingbird side scan sonar located the victim's vessel in thirty-five feet of water straight out from the hoosier hills marina near the shore of the fisherman's campground.  Ico used a remote operated vehicle (rov) around noon on sunday 3/31/2013 located the first victim within six feet of the sunken vessel.  Ico diver made the recovery at 13:46 hours.  Ico diver stated that the victim was lying on his right side with his arms pulled up.  There was nothing else around or under the victim.  The sunken vessel and victim were approximately 450 feet from the shoreline of the fisherman's campground.

Ico's located the second victim, at 15:30 hours using the rov in-between the sunken vessel and the fisherman's campground shore. The victim was approximately 231 feet from shore in twenty feet of water.  Ico diver recovered the victim at 1624 hours. 

Autopsies were done on both victims on monday april 1, 2013 in jasper, indiana.  Preliminary reports listed both causes of death as asphyxia-drowning.  Toxicology reports were obtained from the dubois county coroner's office.  One victim toxicology was positive for caffeine, and the second victim’s test was positive for caffeine, and a prescription anti-depressant.  His parents stated he had been on the medication for over a year.

Both brothers were interview separately on 4/1/2013 at district 7 headquarters by ico detectives.

The four gentlemen were participating in a legal bow fishing tournament on patoka reservoir when the incident occurred around 21:00 hours. 

Survivor1 stated that survivor2 had begun the tournament operating the boat.  They had a couple beers waiting on the sun to set, launching around seven.  The two deceased and survivor2 stood on the bow of the boat as survivor1 is standing on the tool box while they were operating with the trolling motor.  Survivor1 said that he doesn't have much boat experience, but it seemed to him that the boat was pretty close to the surface of the water.  He thought there was maybe 6 inches of freeboard.  Survivor1 said that when they used the big motor, water would splash into the back of the boat.  Survivor1 said survivor2 was messing with the lights on the bow, and operator took the wheel of the boat to get them to a spot they had been to earlier in the evening to fish.  Survivor1 did not feel any impact, just describes water coming into the boat as it slowed down. 
 
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