RedactedNarrative: On June 30, 2018 I at approximately 1559 (Maine Enforcement Officer) was contacted by the SW Regional Dispatch Center. I was notified that there was a one vessel boat accident near Pirates Cove which is on Elephant Butte Lake in Sierra County. I responded by patrol boat and arrived near Pirates Cove at 1604. I observed the State Police Dive Boat pulled along two other vessels. I pulled up on the starboard side of the Police Dive Boat and spoke with Dive Team Member. He informed me that two males who he had on board his vessel had been involved in a high-speed boat accident and the boat sank after the accident.
  
  I then had the two males board my vessel, so they could be treated by the two Border Patrol
  Agents/Medics that were working with me. After stabilizing them and providing some first aid I transported them to the Marina Del Sur Courtesy Dock. We were met on the dock by EMS personnel who took over the care for the two injured victims.
  
  I obtained the following information from the victims at the Courtesy Dock before they were transported to Sierra Vista Hospital in Truth or Consequences, NM. The boat operator was Operator and the only passenger on the boat was Passenger. I informed them I would be contacting them by phone to conduct interviews.
  
  I also spoke with Witness who was operating a pontoon boat in Pirates Cove at the time of the accident. Witness told me that he had witnessed the boat accident. Witness told me that the jet boat left Pirates Cove heading south at a high rate of speed. He told me the jet boat fish tailed two times and then rolled/capsized and flipped three times. He said the jet boat broke apart and sank in less than twenty seconds. He then noticed two people in the water with life jackets on. A couple of boats in the area approached the accident scene and pulled the two victims onto a swim platform of one of the boats.
  Shortly after the accident the State Police Dive Boat arrived on scene to provide aid. Witness was unsure what boat had pulled the two victims out of the water.
  
  On Monday July 2, 2018 at 11 00am I called Operator to conduct a telephone interview. Operator was still in the hospital in El Paso. NM. Operator told me that he and Passenger left Pirates Cove to go out for a ride on the boat. He had just recently replaced the carburetor on the engine. As they were exiting Pirates Cove they were making a turn to the starboard when the motor stalled. This caused the boat to veer back to the port. Operator could not recall what happened next, but he does remember being ejected out of the vessel and into the water. After he surfaced he looked for his Passenger who was also at the surface. Both the operator and passenger were wearing life jackets at the time of the accident. I provided Operator with contact information for Marina del Sur and told him that they do provide salvage services so he could attempt to retrieve his jet boat. I do not have vessel information at this time. Once Operator is released from the hospital he is going to provide that information to me along with the total value of the jet boat.
  
  On Monday July 2. 2018 at 1115am I called Passenger to conduct a telephone interview. Passenger told me that he and Operator left the beach area on the west side of Pirates Cove to go for a ride. As they were exiting Pirates Cove they were "hauling ass" and making a turn to the starboard. He is not sure what happened next. He stated it got silent like maybe the engine had turned off. He remembers getting ejected and landing in the water. When he surfaced he told me that he looked around for Operator. He spotted him at the surface floating with his life jacket on. He remembers a couple of boats pulling up to him in the water and putting him onto a swim platform. He could not provide me with any information about the boat that pulled him out of the water.
  
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