ON 5/10/09 I WAS DISPATCHED TO THE WADDELL DAM IN REFERENCE OF A BOAT STRIKING THE DAM. UPON ARRIVAL I CHECKED THE DAM AREA FROM ABOVE THE VISITOR CENTER WITH A SPOT LIGHT AND DETERMINED NO WATERCRAFT HAD STRUCK THE DAM OR WAS NO LONGER THERE. I THEN ADVISED OTHER DEPITIES THAT WERE ON THE WATER TO CHECK THE SURROUNDING AREAS. I WAS THEN ADVISED THAT THEY HAD LOCATED THE WATERCRAFT AND WAS BEING TOWED BY PLEASANT HARBOR MARINA SERICES AND THAT THIS BOAT HAD BEEN IN SOME KIND OF COLLISION AND ALL OCCUPANTS WERE INTOXICATED. I THEN WENT TO THE SOUTH RAMP WHERE I STOOD WAITING FOR THE WATERCRAFT TO COME IN. I WAS CALLED UPON TO DRAW BLOOD OF THE OPERATOR TO DETERMINE ALCOHOL CONTENT. I NOTED THAT THE WATERCRAFT WAS TIED TO THE COURTESY DOCK BUT HAD SUNK TO ITS KEEL AND WAS RESTING ON THE RAMP ITSELF. I ADVISED THE DOCK CREW I WOULD NEED TO SEE THE WATERCRAFT IN THE MORNING AFTER IT WAS REMOVED FROM THE WATER AND PLACED IN DRY STORAGE. I INSPECTED THE BOAT ON 5/11. AFTER BRUSHING OFF WOOD DEBRIS LEFT ON THE HULL I DISCOVERED THAT THERE WAS A DISTICNT BLACK LINE RUNNING FROM THE BOW TO THE TRANSOM OF THE BOAT. THIS IS CONSISTENT OF STRIKING THE FLOATING WAKE WALL OUTSIDE THE MARINA. THIS WALL IS MADE UP OF SEVERAL TRACTOR TIRES, THEY ARE ALSO HELD TOGETHER WITH SEVERAL STRANDS OF STEEL CABLE AND CHOCKERS ALONG WITH SEVERAL ANCHOR WINCHES. I ALSO NOTED THAT THE LOWER UNIT APPEARED TO BE ALMOST RIPPED FROM THE HULL. LATER IN THE DAY I MADE CONTACT WITH A FEMALE PASSENGER ON THE WATERCRAFT AND I ASKED HER IF SHE REMEMBERS POSSIBLE STRIKING THE TIRES. SHE SAID THAT SHE DID NOT THINK THAT THEY HAD STRUCK TIRES BUT THEY DID HIT SOMETHING. SHE ALSO SAID THAT THEY WERE ON THEIR LAST PASS HEADING TOWARDS THE DAM AND SHE RECALLED COMMENTING TO A FELLOW PASSENGER ABOUT THE STARS. SHE COULD NOT TELL ME ANYTHING FURTHER.
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