RedactedNarrative: On September 13, 2021, at approximately 2:45 PM while on patrol in Calvert County Maryland, Maryland Natural Resources Police received a boating emergency call from the Department of Natural Resources Police Communications Center for a vessel with 4 people on board in the area of Chesapeake Beach, taking on water in the Chesapeake Bay outside of Fishing Creek. 
  
       While en route to Fishing Creek, the Chesapeake Beach Volunteer Fire Department informed us that they had pulled the 4 people from the sinking boat onto their fireboat and were heading back to the dock in Fishing Creek. The fire department also notified us that the vessel (a white 2002 21.5ft. Bayliner Trophy) was approximately 90% sunk and had been marked with a buoy.
  
       We arrived on scene at approximately 3:45 PM and made contact with the firefighters along with the four people that were onboard the sinking boat. The owner of the boat was accompanied by 3 passengers. All subjects were not injured as a result of the boat taking on water and did not need any medical attention
  
       I asked OP1  what happened and how the boat sank. He stated that when they put the boat in the water at the Fishing Creek boat ramp they checked to make sure the bilge pump was working and pumping out water which it was. OP1  said they began to make their way out to the Bay. When they were about halfway out of the creek the bilge pump stopped working. When it stopped pumping OP1  said they all began to try to fix it because water had started to come in the two drain holes located in the stern of the boat just above the floor. While the water was coming in it began to fill up the stern of the boat eventually spilling into a hole in the floor of the boat where the bottom of the hull was exposed. The water spilling into that hole was filling the hull of the boat. OP1  stated they were at the last two poles (The red and green channel markers at the mouth of Fishing Creek) when the stern of the boat started to go under and water began to come in over the gunwale of the boat. The bow of the boat then went into the air eventually capsizing to the starboard side of the boat. OP1  stated that everyone jumped into the water before it capsized then once it was flipped completely over all 4 of them crawled onto the bottom of the boat that was still above the water before being rescued by the fire department.
  
       The boat was later recovered that night at approximately 7:15 PM by Tow Boat US and towed back to the boat ramp where it was returned to OP1  and loaded onto his trailer and he took possession of it.
  
       All events occurred in Calvert County Maryland.
  