RedactedNarrative: On Sunday, April 24, 2022, I Game Warden received a call from GSP dispatch at 6:50 AM regarding a boating incident on Lake Lanier in Hall County. Dispatch stated that two vessels had collided at 0640 am earlier that morning throwing three people into the water. The three individuals all who were wearing lifejackets were able to get back into their boats or were picked up by witnesses in another boat. 
  
  The two boats involved in the collision were able to make their way to Gainesville Marina and were awaiting law-enforcement arrival. I responded to Gainesville Marina and arrived on scene at 7:35 AM. As I arrived a Hall County Deputy met with me and provided me with the identification of the three men involved in the incident. The deputy told me that two of the men who were together were both taken to the Hospital while the remaining man was still on board his boat. I then began to look at and scrutinize the two vessels involved. 
  
  I could see that a red 2022 Caymas bass boat had a large hole and strike point in its port side near the bow. I saw that on the other boat a 2022 black Ranger bass boat had significant damage on the bow of the vessel with a large chunk missing from the deck of the bow. I went to the red Caymas and looked at the Lowrance GPS system on board. I was able to track the movement of the Caymas as it was recorded by the system as it moved down the Lake that morning. The Caymas’ Lowrance system showed that it was heading southwardly down the Chattahoochee River on the right-hand side of the channel has it was approaching a bend in the lake. Suddenly the vessel started making large right circle turn also known as a the “circle of death” indicating that the driver was not wearing his kill switch when he was thrown overboard. 
  
  I went to the other boat a 2022 black Ranger bass boat and asked the operator if I could look at his Hummingbird GPS system and he consented to my request. When I looked at operator1’s GPS system, I saw how his vessel was coming northwardly up the Chattahoochee River heading toward the bend in the lake on the left-hand side of the channel. The system showed that the Ranger boat continued to turn left as it rounded the bend in the lake. I spoke to Operator1 about what I was seeing on the system and Operator1 stated “I cut in sharp to avoid him and he cut in the same way as me”
  
  I then met with the two witnesses who had helped rescue the men and brought them to Gainesville Marina. They stated that they were about 150 yards behind the Caymas bass boat going in the same direction when they saw the Ranger bass boat turn to its left and collide with the Caymas bass boat. 
  
  I left the marina and went to Northeast Georgia Medical Center and interviewed the two men who had been taken to the Emergency Room. I met operator2 and his wife in the ER and had his wife assist in writing his statement due to the pain Operator2 was in. Operator2 stated he was the operator of the Caymas bass boat and that he was driving the boat south at about 60 miles per hour when as he was approaching the bend in the lake, he saw the Ranger bass boat. He stated that he kept turning right to stay out of the Rangers way but that the Ranger kept coming towards his boat. He stated that before he was hit, he turned his vessel hard to try to avoid the collision but was struck by the Ranger bass boat anyways. I spoke to the other man who was in the boat and his statement was the same as Operator2’s. Operator2 told me that he had all of his navigation lights on at the time of the incident.
  
  I left the Hospital and called Operator1 who had put his Ranger bass boat onto its trailer and asked to meet him. We met at Gainesville Marina so I could take pictures of his boat. I noticed there where small paint transfers of red paint on to the black hull of the Ranger bass boat and He stated that the Caymas had struck the Ranger bass boat several times while it was circling after the collision.  The Ranger bass boat lights were working.  The Caymas boat said the lights were on his boat.
  
  The Ranger boat drove on the wrong side of the channel/bend and struck the Caymas boat while it was driving south and on the correct side of the channel/bend.