RedactedNarrative: On 9/15/2018 at approxiametly 9:50am. we received a call from US Coast Guard in St.Pete about a vessel taking on water approxiametly 13 miles offshore of Stienhatchee Fl. At Approxiametly 11:00am I FWC Officers arrived on-scene at the given coordinates where sea tow was already on scene pulling the occupants out of the water. The vessel was capsized and the owner/operator was a sea tow member and made an agreement with sea tow to have the vessel towed back to stienhatchee. no injuries were observed and all occupants were accounted for.
   
  Operator 1 stated that he was a guide for the “Hooked on Hero’s Foundation fishing tournament” that was taking place in Steinhatchee that day and had 3 other people on his vessel when the incident occurred
  
  -	We launched out of Stienhatchee this morning
  -	We got about 10 to 15 miles offshore
  -	The weather started getting really bad
  -	It went from 1-2ft seas to 5-6ft seas
  -	We turned around and got hit by 2 waves over the stern
  -	The bilge pump wasn’t working
  -	The boat started to go down
  -	We put on our life vests and waited for Seatow and FWC
  