RedactedNarrative: On January 11, 2018 I, Officer First Class of the Maryland Natural Resources Police, was in the area of Cox Creek looking for waterfowl hunters. At 10:46 am the communication center dispatched a call for an ongoing drowning off of Bodkin Point on the Chesapeake Bay. I activated my emergency lights and sirens and proceeded to Stoney Creek to get aboard NRP141, a SeaArk. 
  
        Once aboard NRP141 I activated the emergency lights and siren and proceeded towards the location given to me by the communications. While proceeding towards the location of the call I had to break through a large amount of ice which was covering large sections of the Patapsco River and the Chesapeake Bay. Despite the large amount of ice I was able to make between 25 to 30 knots on my way to the call.
  
         Upon arrival at location given I was not able to spot the subject. Victim was clinging to his kayak and only his head was above the water's surface. After searching for Victim for a couple of minutes I called the initial complainant, whose phone number was listed in the CAD. The complainant was able to give her phone to an Emergency Medical Services worker who was able to direct me to Victim's location. When I got to within about 100 yards of Victim's location I was able to spot him. I pulled my vessel up next to him and cut the engines to avoid striking him accidently with the propellers.  
  
        I made contact with Victim, who was barely conscious and largely unable to speak or offer any assistance on getting him aboard due to the cold. I attempted to get Victim onboard my vessel. I was unable to get Victim over the starboard bulwark of my NRP141. I grabbed a length of line and tied it off to the boat and then to Victim's pants then used that to drag him down the length of the vessel to the stern where I could pull him up onto the section between the deck and the outboard engines. 
  
        Once I had gotten Victim to the stern on the vessel I grabbed a hold of his Type V PFD and pulled him up until he could hook his elbows over the protecting rail the goes around the engines. Victim's Type V PFD, which is an inflatable PFD, did not inflate. When we later checked the gauge it was showing red which means that it was not operational. I then grabbed the line which I had previously attached to Victim's pants and used that to pull him up until he could get his left knee up onto the vessel. During this time Victim told me that he had Muscular Dystrophy.  Now that Victim was fairly well braced and unlikely to slide back into the water I again took hold of Victim's PFD and was able to pull him up onto the deck of NRP141. 
  
        Once Victim was secured on my vessel I met up with the three EMS personnel who had been attempting to reach Victim by paddling out to him in a metal hulled dingy. One of the EMS personnel came into my vessels cabin with me to guide me into where the ambulance was at Celebration on the Bay. The harbor at Celebration on the Bay was entirely iced in with approximately six inches of ice. I broke through the ice and docked NRP141 next to the boat lift. 
   I was met at the dock by Investigator and Officer First Class of the Natural Resources Police as well as additional EMS personnel. The initial EMS personnel who were aboard my vessel began attempting to cut Victim's clothes off of him. The EMS personnel asked if we had any trauma scissors and Investigator  was able to direct them to the first aid kit stored on the vessel where we found two sets. Using these shears the EMS personnel cut off Victim's clothing and then covered him with three blankets taken from NRP141. They then lifted him onto a stretcher and transported him by ambulance to Baltimore Washington Medical Center in Anne Arundel County. 
  
        Officer and I then took back NRP141 to Stoney Creek Marina. On our return journey we recovered the metal dingy used by EMS as well as Victim's blue kayak, several of his decoys, a camouflage bag containing shotgun shells and two shotgun chokes as well as a wooden paddle. I contacted Celebration on the Bay and told them that we had recovered their dingy; they sent two people to meet us at Stoney Creek to take possession of it. 
  
        I then went to BWMC, the hospital that Victim had been transported to. I found Victim recovering with his family. His mother told me that we could take his kayak to their house. I then gave Victim's personal effects to his wife. While I was doing this she told me that Victim had been told not to go out hunting in his kayak when it was icy. Victim's wife signed for his clothing, personal effects, decoys, bag, paddle, and kayak. 
  
        All events took place in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.