RedactedNarrative: On April 1st 2017 at 1700, I RFC received a call from GSP Dispatch about a boating incident near sunset cove on Lake Lanier. GSP Dispatch told me that Hall County dispatch had called and relayed that a boat was spotted half sunk with no occupants seen in or around the boat. I responded by truck and while enroot I made contact with the Hall County Fire Boat "marine 1". Marine 1 was able to give me the registration number for the sunk vessel and I looked up the registered owner. The boat registration returned back to a 1991 Caravelle Classic. 
  
  I called subject who told me that two men named Operator1 and Operator2 had been driving around the lake that afternoon with his boat, Subject also told me that Operator1 was driving his boat while Operator2 was driving a jet-ski. He told me he knew the boat had sank and that Operator2 was returning to the boat to retrieve a cell phone he had stored in the boat. I asked Subject if he knew where Operator1 could be found and he told me he was staying a Shady Grove Campground. I called Cpl. and RFC (who were also responding to the incident) to make their way by boat to the crash site and to talk to Operator2 and get a witness statement from him (see Supplemental reports). When I arrived at my boat in Aqualand I drove to Shady Grove Campground. 
  
  When I arrived I was assisted by the park officer who drove me to the campground that Operator1 was staying. When we pulled up to the campsite I met Operator1 Operator1 who told me he was the driver of the Caravelle boat and that Operator2 had jumped a wake and landed on the back of the boat which caused the boat to sink. 
  
  I also noticed a smell of alcohol coming from Operator1. Operator1 admitted to drinking and I asked him to accompany me back to my boat (see OPERATOR1 BUI report). I took Operator1 back to the crash site after arresting him and turned him over to Cpl.. I was informed that Operator2 who was driving a 2016 Yamaha Jet ski had been drinking and I began to investigate him for BUI as well.
  
  	In conclusion On April 1st 2017 at approximately 1600, Operator1 was operating a 1991 Caravelle herby known as vessel 1 while intoxicated out of sunset cove when operator2 who was driving a 2016 Yamaha jet-ski herby known as vessel 2 and also intoxicated, illegally jumped a wake close to vessel 1. The force of the jump was strong enough to caused vessel 2 to land on the starboard side of the stern of vessel 1. With the added weight of vessel 2 to vessel 1, buoyancy was lost and water was able to come over the gunwales and fill the hull of vessel 1 causing it to sink. Due to air-pockets in the bow, vessel 1 was not a total loss and was able to remain near the surface. Tow Boat U.S.A. was able to salvage vessel 1 later that evening.  END OF REPORT
  