RedactedNarrative: On Saturday May 9th, 2020 I was contacted. Subject advised that he was fishing the Coosawattee River from his vessel in the area of his residence. Subject advised that he was anchored down while fishing, and when he went to pull up the anchor a tree limb fell on his vessel causing it to take on water and capsize. 
  
    Subject was able to get a PFD and safely swim to shore. His vessel a 1978 Sears jon boat with a 2020 Mercury 15 horse power outboard motor (serial number-OR951446) then sank in the river at a estimated depth of ten feet. 
  
    Subject advised that the value of the outboard to be estimated at three thousand dollars and the vessel to be valued at an estimate of five hundred dollars. Subject advised that the vessel and outboard to be a total loss. 
  
    The vessel was left at the incident location at the time of report. Subject advised that he and a friend were going to attempt to retrieve the vessel later in the evening. 
  
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