RedactedNarrative: On August 25, 2016, at 1438 hours, I received a call from dispatch regarding a distressed vessel that was sinking due to taking on too much water. I took NPS vessel 2511 and found the vessel at 1500 hours near the wakeless buoy in front of Hall's Crossing Marina. Ranger and I looked for associated vessels, and I found an associated houseboat near Bullfrog buoy 2 that was beached on an island. The houseboat was identified as "Chillin in Paradise". I talked to the operator. OPERATOR2 was onboard "Chillin in Paradise" with his wife and one other couple.
  
  At this time wind speeds were over 50mph and there were 5-6 foot swells in Bullfrog Bay. OPERATOR2 explained to me that the submerged vessel I found was his. OPERATOR2 said they were towing V1 behind the houseboat and the hazardous conditions made the towed boat take on too much water. As V1 was going under water, it caused the towing line to snap and the boat went under water.
  
  Aramark came to extract the V1 from the water and they took the boat to Bullfrog. Voluntary statements and other pictures are attached to this report as an external document.
  
  VOLUNTARY STATEMENT: Operator2
  Ski boat was being towed behind a houseboat. A big wind storm came up and the ski boat started to take on water. We couldn't save the ski boat in time. It took on too much water, the line towing the boat snapped and the boat went under. We saw the engine cover float away and the back seat. We still facing threatening winds caught cover and called it in.
  
  VOLUNTARY STATEMENT: subject2: Ski boat took on water over the bow from high winds. Filled with water, towing rope broke, boat then floated away and submerged.
  