RedactedNarrative: On Monday, 09/27/2021, I Game Warden, along with Game Warden received a call at approximately 9:20 am, about a distressed vessel that had capsized at the mouth of the Altamaha River in McIntosh County. The dispatcher notified us that there were five occupants onboard the vessel and none had working cell phones.  Dispatch advised that the vessel was underwater but the subjects were on a sandbar. McIntosh fire and rescue made an attempt to rescue but were unable to launch their vessels due to battery issues. 
  	At  9:28 Game Wardens were en route to the Brunswick Department of Natural Resources Office in Glynn County, from their location at Ceylon Wildlife Management Area in Camden County.  At 9:37 the Coast Guard was notified in the case the 27' SAFE boat patrol vessel could not reach the subjects on the sand bar. At 10:38 they made contact with all five subjects. The subjects informed that they were all uninjured and safely aboard the commercial shrimp trawler.
  	They then navigated to where the vessel was located. The vessel was on a sandbar in the Altamaha Sound where it was rocking side to side in the waves. The vessel was a white Oceanic with twin Yamaha engines. He took pictures of the vessel for documentation. They then navigated back to the shrimp trawler for him to board and get statements from the occupants of the distressed vessel.
  
  There were five people aboard the vessel, but only three were aboard the distressed vessel at the time it drifted into the sandbar.   Operator notified rep that they had left out of Blue N Hall Marina at around 5:30 am to bring supplies to the vessel for fishing. Around 6:15 am they had arrived and were dropping off the fishing supplies. They untied from the trawler around 6:30 am with engines running. Shortly after the engines failed and would not start back. They tried to anchor but it would not catch. They were then carried by a fast moving outgoing tide into the sandbar in the Altamaha Sound. Operator said they were not running when they struck the bar. A recreational fishing vessel picked him and company up from the sandbar and dropped them off on the trawler around 9:00 am. occupants agreed with his statement.  He was asked what he thought was damaged and how much he estimated it to be. He then said the boat would be about thirty five thousand brand new. The owner spent twenty five thousand alone on the motors. When the bar was struck it destroyed the floor and picked the steering, center console, and wiring up out of the boat.
  	The captain of the by-standing vessel and deckhand were the other two occupants on the shrimp trawler. The Captain was also brought out for a statement. He and the trawler were out of Gautier, Mississippi. He agreed that Operator was initially out to bring supplies to his vessel and was brought back after his vessel had been barred in the sound. He then concluded his questioning and returned to the patrol vessel. The scene was then cleared.