VESSEL FL 8855 RY A 20 FT LAKE AND BAY OPERATED BY OPERATOR 1 AND OCCUPIED BY PASSENGER 1, WAS A PARTICIPANT IN THE RED FISH CUP CURRENTLY BEING HELD OUT OF BILOXI,  VESSEL LEFT THE TOURNAMENT START AND WAS HEADED TO THE DELACROIX AREA.  WHILE CROSSING LAKE BORGNE, THE OPERATOR NOTICED THE BOAT HANDLING SLUGGISHLY AND EXPERIENCED PROBLEM MAINTIANING PROPER TRIM.  UPON SLOWING THE VESSEL SLIGHTLY THE OCCUPANT REALIZED THAT A LARGE AMOUNT OF WATER WAS IN THE FLOOR OF THE VESSEL.  THE OPERATOR IMMEIDATELY HEADED FOR THE SHORELINE NEAR FALSE MOUTH BAYOU A DISTANCE OF APPROXIMATELY TWO MILES AWAY, UPON REACHING THE SHORELINE, HE DROVE THE BOW OF THE VESSEL ONSHORE SEVERAL FEET AT WHICH TIME THE SHUTOFF VALVE FOR THE HIGH SPEED WATER PICKUP WAS OPEN ALLOWING THE HIGH SPEED LIVE WELL PICKUP TO PUMP DIRECTLY INTO THE HULL FILLING IT WITH WATER.  NO ALCOHOL OR DRUGS WERE INVOLVED.  LIFE JACKETS AND KILL SWITCH WERE BEING WORN DURING INCIDENT.  AGENTS ASSISTED IN GETTING THE VESSEL PUMPED OUT AND TOWED INTO BRETON SOUND MARINA LOCATED IN HOPEDALE.
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