RedactedNarrative: I was told by RFC that Operator, age 65, from Seneca, SC was operating vessel 1 which is described as a 2000 Malibu Response LX ski boat bearing Georgia registration GA 6115 KT (HIN MB2Y6530B000) with four kids in the bow area and one adult passenger. Vessel 1 is a rental boat owned by Anchorage Marine Inc. on Lake Burton. 
  
  Subject1, age 44, from Prosper, TX was in the passenger seat, and four others were in the bow area. Operator was turning the vessel in a circle to create waves in an effort to splash the kids in the bow. When the bow of vessel 1 impacted the wave, the bow took on a lot of water and Subject2 and Victim were ejected out of the vessel. Operator immediately put the vessel in reverse and heard Subject2 yelling that he could not find Victim. Operator jumped in the water to look for Victim and found him stuck in the propeller underneath vessel 1. A pontoon boat came to their aid and assisted them with getting back to their boat house at the residence. Several people notified Rabun County 911 for help during this incident. Rabun County Fire and EMS personnel responded to the scene and lifted vessel 1 out of the water on a boat lift in the boat house to remove the victim from the propeller. Sgt. took several photographs of the victim while they were removing him from the propeller. (see RCSO photographs). The victim had already been removed from underneath the vessel by the time I arrived on scene. RFC and I looked at vessel 1 which was tied up at the dock. All of the seat cushions had been removed from vessel 1 and they were drying out on the dock. I observed the interior of vessel 1 was extremely wet and the bilge pump would automatically pump water periodically. I photographed vessel 1 in this condition (see photographs) and made arrangements for the fire boat to tow it back to the DNR boat house. We spoke to the victim's father about the incident and investigative process. RFC called the owner of Anchorage Marine Inc, about the incident and the involvement of one of his rental boats. Owner gave RFC and Department of Natural Resources (DNR) investigators consent to do what we needed to the vessel to investigate this incident. RFC and I drove to the DNR boat house and removed the patrol boat. The Rabun County Fire boat towed vessel 1 to the DNR boat house where we locked vessel 1 in to secure it overnight.