ON 5/24/09 AT APPROX. 1430HRS I WAS COTACTED VIA CELL PHONE BY OPERATOR OF V1. HE ADVISED ME THAT AT APPROX. 1100HRS HE ALONG WITH A PASSENGER WERE ONBOARD HIS EBBTIDE TRAVELING SOUTHBOUND IN THE MAIN BAY OF LAKE PLEASANT ADJACENT TO JACKASS COVE WHEN THE BOAT HIT SEVERAL LARGE WAVES CREATED BY CHOPPY WATER CAUSING WATER TO ENTER INSIDE THE BAOT, OVER THE BOW OF THE EBBTIDE. HE STATED THAT THE AMOUNT OF WATER THAT ENETRED THE BOAT BEGAN TO CUASE THE TRANSOM OF THE BAOT TO SINK. HE IMMEDIATLY TURNED ON HIS PORATBLE BILGE PUMP IN AN ATTEMPT TO BILGE THE WATER FROM THE INSIDE OF THE BOAT. HE WAS UNABLE TO BILGE THE WATER BEFORE THE BOAT BEGAN TO SINK UNDER THE WATER. IT WAS AT THAT TIME THAT HE BEGAN TOWARDS THE SHORELINE OF JACKASS COVE. HE STATED UPON ARRIVING AT JACKASS COVE THE TRANSOM SUNK UNDERWATER AT WHICH TIME HE, HIS PASSENGERS AND SEVERAL PIECES OF UQUIPMENT FELL OUT OF THE BOAT INTO THE WATER. HE THEN BEACHED THE EBBTIDE AND SECURED IT TO SEVERAL ROCKS. HE AND HIS PASSENGERS WERE THEN TAKEN TO THE NORTH RAMP OF THE MARINA. NEITHER HE OR HIS PASSENGERS WERE INJURED. NOTHING FURTHER.
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