RedactedNarrative: Vessel one was returning from duck hunting and tried to navigate across the main channel of Lake Barkley, when it took two large waves over the bow of the boat. The vessel started to sink and the occupants were hanging onto the side of the sinking vessel. Vessel two observed the sinking vessel from a distance with the occupants in the water and pulled up next to vessel. The occupants were loaded into boat number two along with a k-9. Vessel number two had a total of seven occupants, gear, and two k-9s. 
  Vessel number made it about 50 or 70 yards from the sinking vessel, when their boat started taking on water from the stern of the boat. The occupants started jumping in the water and trying to hang onto to whatever they could to stay afloat on. One of the occupants had just purchased a new, water proof phone and called 911 for help. He also called a hunter for help, that was hunting not too far from where they hunted that morning. Vessel three arrived on scene and took his two occupants to the bank, so he could go back and get the rest of the occupants out of the water.
  
  Vessel three had all the occupants hang to the side of his boat and he took them straight to the bank. Everyone walked to 512 blue river ln and the owners of the residence gave them clothes and blankets to dry off with until all Emergency Personnel arrived. No one was wearing any type of PFD’s, 7 guns, gear, 2 boats and one k-9 is missing. Parties of boat number one, returned back to bank area that night and retrieved on the guns in a floating case and some gear belonging to some of the hunters in boat number two. On 12-24-2019, I returned back to the area where the vessels went down and located vessel number two. Decoys were still attached to the vessel with the nose sticking out.
  
  I took off as many decoys as I could and the vessel started to drift with the current toward the main channel. I called the owner of the vessel and he advised that he couldn’t make it get the boat out of the water until Wednesday. I had no way to pull the boat to the shallow part of the shallows and I marked the nose of the boat with a yellow throw cushion, so no one would run over it. The owner of vessel number with two of his friends located another gun and his vessel near Rockcastle Boat Ramp. He asked me if I had seen his dog and asked if I would give him a ride to the island where they hunted before the accident. I took them to the island and no luck on finding his missing k-9. He pulled his boat up onto the rocks and advised me that he was going to return with a trolling motor and battery to get it to the Rockcastle Boat Ramp, so he could put it back on the trailer.
  
  On 12-26-2018, the owner called me and advised that he located his boat about one mile from where I located it on the 24th. He advised that the missing k-9 was under his boat tangled up in decoys. He notified the owner of boat number one about his dog and met him at Prizer Point Boat Ramp to pick it up. The guns that were in floating cases were retrieved and returned back to the owners and the rest of the guns are on the bottom of the lake.