RedactedNarrative: On July 28, 2018, I, Cpl., received a call from GSP Dispatch notifying me of a boating incident involving a capsized boat that had occurred in Liberty County on the Intracoastal Waterway near Marker 130.  The dispatch advised me that Liberty County 911 had dispatched the Eastern District Fire/Rescue boat and that they were on scene.  Dispatch advised me that everything seemed to be handled and that Coast Guard had been notified also.  
  
  At the time of the call, myself and Game Warden were patrolling the upper Ogeechee River near Morgan's Bridge.  Once we made it back to the ramp that we had launched from, Cpl. called me to inform me that he had heard that there had been eight persons in the water and that there had been 2 - 3 injuries.  I contacted Liberty 911 Dispatch who informed me that they were informed that two persons had been injured and a third had fainted (this later was found to be a mix up in communications from the rescue boat - there were a total of eight persons on the secondary boat after they had rescued the three passengers in the first boat).  They informed me that the Fire/Rescue boat had already transported the injured persons to the boat ramp at Sunbury to meet two ambulances which were already en route to Memorial Hospital in Savannah, GA.
  
      Once I got back to my truck at the Richmond Hill Hatchery, I asked Warden1 to proceed to the hospital to gather information and talked to any of the victims or witnesses.  I proceeded to Half Moon Marina in Liberty County to the location where Sea Tow was towing the vessel.  Once at the marina, I met Capt. of Sea Tow.  He advised me that the boat had not capsized but had run aground on the creek bank.  He also advised that the passengers had been taken to the hospital.  I inspected the boat and took photos.  I could not see any significant damage at the time.  I then went to the fire station at Sunbury and talked to a fire fighter who stated the rescue boat had responded to find that there had only been three persons in the boat and that they had been picked up by another boat that they had been following.  The rescue boat met the second boat and followed it back to the Sunbury boat ramp after putting a paramedic onto the assisting boat.  The fire fighter who had stayed at the ramp during the rescue, stated that he had heard that the boat operator had passed out and lost control of the boat and that the other two passengers had sustained cuts on their feet when they stepped onto oysters shells trying to climb into the assisting boat.
  
       At the hospital, Warden1 talked to stepson of the boat operator/owner.  Subject1 had not been in the boat or at the scene.  Subject1 stated that Operator had been speaking incoherently and was shivering.  The hospital staff were concerned that Operator may have hit his head so they took him to conduct a CAT scan.  Subject1 stated that his stepfather had recently started a vegan diet and that they were concerned that his body levels might be off.  Subject1 then took Warden1 to meet his mother who was with her five-year old daughter in the pediatric-care ward.  
  
  Wife told Warden1 that they had been returning from the beach on the north end of Blackbeard Island, coming up the Intracoastal Waterway through Johnson Creek when she and her daughter moved up to the front of the boat.  Her daughter started yelling to "go straight" and she saw that they were heading towards the shoreline.  She turned back to look at her husband but could not see him so she moved to grab the steering wheel.  She found her husband laying back passed out on the seat and they hit the creek bank before she could turn the boat.  The boat ran up the bank over an oyster shell outcropping and into the edge of the marsh grass.  She said that it took nearly five minutes to wake her husband who then began
  