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  ON SUNDAY JULY 25TH, 2021, AT APPROXIMATELY 9:01 PM., I, INDIANA CONSERVATION OFFICER, WAS CONTACTED BY ICO DISPATCH REGARDING A BOAT ACCIDENT THAT TOOK PLACE ON BROOKVILLE LAKE.  I WAS ADVISED THAT THE BOAT IS STATIONARY IN THE HANNA CREEK PARKING LOT.
     
  A SHORT TIME LATER, INDIANA CONSERVATION OFFICER AND MYSELF ARRIVED AT THE HANNA CREEK PARKING LOT IN UNION CO. 
  
  BOAT OPERATOR AND OWNER WAS STANDING NEXT TO HIS 1994 THOROGHBRED 26 FOOT PLEASURE BOAT, INDIANA REGISTRATION.   THE BOAT WAS STATIONARY ON THE TRAILER.   Operator POINTED TO THE FIBERGLASS AND STRUCTURAL DAMAGE ON THE VERY BOTTOM OF BOAT ON THE PORT SIDE NEAR THE STERN.  THE FIBERGLASS HULL OF THE BOTTOM OF THE BOAT WAS SEPARATING OR CALLED COMPOSITE DELAMINATION.   I COULD VISUALLY SEE INSIDE OF THE BOAT'S HULL IN SEVERAL LOCATIONS WHERE THE FIBERGLASS HULL DELAMINATION WAS OCCURRING. 
  
  DELAMINATION IS WHEN LAYERS OF FIBERGLASS CLOTH AND RESIN SEPARATE FROM EACH OTHER OR FROM THE CORE SANDWICHED BETWEEN THE LAYERS.  IT USUALLY IS CAUSED BY PHYSICAL STRESS TO THE BOATS FIBERGLASS SURFACE WHICH SPLITS THE SURFACE SKIN AND ALLOWS WATER TO ENTER THE LAMINATE AND TRAVEL INTO THE CORE.  DELAMINATION CAN ALSO OCCUR FROM REPEATED SURFACE IMPACTS.   
  
  WHILE LOOKING AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BOAT I ALSO NOTICED AN AREA INSIDE THE HULL THAT WAS PROTRUDING DOWN INTO THE FIBERGLASS BUT HADN'T PUSHED THROUGH YET.  
   
  I ASKED Operator WHAT HAPPENED AND HE ADVISED THAT HE DIDN'T KNOW.  I ASKED HIM WHAT HE HIT AND HE ADVISED HE DEFINITELY KNOWS HE DIDN'T HIT ANYTHING.  HE STATED THAT THE BOAT USED TO BE A "RACING BOAT" BEFORE HE PURCHASED IT.  
  
  Operator ADVISED HE WAS OPERATING HIS BOAT IN THE MAIN BODY OF BROOKVILLE LAKE BETWEEN MOUNDS BEACH AND WOLF CREEK WHEN HE NOTICED THE PROBLEM.  HE ADVISED HE WAS UNDER POWER, OPERATING AT A SPEED OF APPROXIMATELY 30 MPH AND THE BOAT STARTED “STEERING FUNNY.”  HE ADVISED HE HAS OWNED SEVERAL BOATS OVER THE YEARS AND HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS.  HE ADVISED HE HAS OWNED THE BOAT FOR THREE WEEKS AND HAS ONLY OPERATED THE BOAT TWO TO THREE TIMES ON THE WATER. 
  
  HE BELIEVES THE PREVIOUS OWNER TEMPORARILY FIXED A PROBLEM, GEL COATED OVER IT AND ADDED FRESH PAINT AND SOLD HIM A DEFECTIVE BOAT.  
  
  BOTH PASSENGERS, ADVISED THAT subject DID NOT HIT ANYTHING IN THE LAKE AND THE BOAT STARTED SHAKING WHEN IT WAS UNDER POWER.  
     
  UPDATE: 
  Operator CONTACTED A BOAT REPAIR SPECIALIST AND SHOWED HIM THE PICTURES OF THE BOAT DAMAGE AND HE ADVISED THAT KIND OF DAMAGE IS CAUSED BY "HARD IMPACTS"  
      