RedactedNarrative: ON SATURDAY, AUGUST 28TH, 2021, AT APPROXIMATELY 18:00, I SAW A MAURY CO FIRE AND RESCUE VEHICLE HEADING TOWARDS NEW HWY 7 RUNNING EMERGENCY TRAFFIC. I CALLED MAURY CO DISPATCH TO GET SOME INFORMATION BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT COULD BE BOATING RELATED. UPON SPEAKING WITH THE DISPATCHER, I WAS INFORMED THAT A BOAT WITH TWO INDIVIDUALS HAD SANK IN THE DUCK RIVER AROUND THE 130 MILE MARKER. THE INDIVIDUALS WERE ABLE TO MAKE IT OUT OF THE SUNK VESSEL BUT WERE CLINGING TO A TREE LIMB IN THE WATER. I THEN PROCEEDED TO PICK UP MY BOAT AND HEAD TO CHICKASAW TRACE BOAT RAMP TO LAUNCH. DURING THIS TIME WAS NOTIFIED THAT ONE OF THE RESCUE BOATS WAS HAVING SOME TROUBLE LAUNCHING FROM RIVERSIDE ACCESS. I RAN EMERGENCY TRAFFIC TO CHICKASAW TRACE BOAT RAMP WHERE MAURY CO MET ME THERE TO ASSIST ME ON THE CALL. 
  WE LAUNCHED THE BOAT AND MADE IT ALMOST TO THEM WHEN HE WAS CONTACTED THAT THE INDIVIDUALS HAD BEEN RESCUED FROM THE RIVER BY A MEMBER OF THE SWIFT WATER TEAM. WE THEN WENT BACK TO THE RAMP AND LOADED THE PATROL BOAT AND WENT TO INCIDENT COMMAND POST ON THE PRINCE PROPERTY AJACENT TO HWY 7. THE INDIVIDUALS HAD JUST BEEN CLEARED BY EMS WHEN I AND OFFICERS ARRIVED. 
  THE OWNER/OPERATOR OF THE VESSEL STATED THAT IT WAS A RECENTLY PURCHASED JON BOAT, WHAT WE FELT LIKE WAS AROUND 10FT IN LENGTH, THAT THEY WERE IN. THEY HAD PUT IN JUST DOWN RIVER OF THE HWY 31 BRIDGE IN COLUMBIA TN ROUGHLY AROUND 15:00. AT AROUND 5:15 THEY ENCOUNTERED A BRIEF RAINSTORM WHILE ON THE WATER AND WENT PAST THE RAMP WHERE THEY WERE GOING TO TAKE OUT.  THEY THEN TRIED TO TURN THE VESSEL AROUND TO HEAD BACK UP RIVER. OPERATOR 1 WAS OPERATING A TROLLING MOTOR ON THE VESSEL AND OCCUPANT WAS IN THE FRONT TRYING TO PADDLE BACK UP RIVER. DUE TO THE CURRENT THEY WERE UNABLE TO MAKE IT BACK TO THE RAMP SO THEY CALLED 911. OPEARTOR 1 STATED THAT THE DISPATCHER TOLD THEM TO TRY TO GET TO SOMETHING THEY COULD HOLD ONTO UNTIL RESCUE MADE IT TO THEM. THEY WERE ABLE TO MAKE IT TO A DOWNED TREE IN THE RIVER TO  HOLD TO. DURING THIS TIME THEY GOT OUT THE VESSEL AND ONTO THE TREE. 
  WHILE WAITING THERE OCCUPANT 1 THEN TRIED TO PULL THE BOAT ONTO THE TREE WHEN THE STERN OF THE VESSEL BEGAN TAKING ON WATER AND EVENTUALLY SANK IN THE RIVER. SOME TIME THEREAFTER FIRE AND RESCUE WAS ABLE TO MAKE CONTACT WITH THE INDIVIDUALS AND GET THEM TO SAFETY. THE VESSEL WAS LEFT IN THE RIVER. OPEARTOR 1 AND OCCUPANT 1 WERE CHECKED BY EMS WITH NO INJURIES AND RELEASED. DURING THE INTERVIEW IT WAS FOUND THAT OPEARTOR 1 HAD NOT REGISTERED THE VESSEL, NOR DID SHE HAVE ANY CONTACT INFORMATION FOR WHO SOLD HER THE BOAT NOR ANY INFORMATION REGARDING ANY REGSTRATION NUMBERS OR HULL ID NUMBER. 
  SHE STATED THAT SHE HAD PAID ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR THE BOAT AND VALUED THE EQUIPMENT THAT WAS IN THE BOAT TO BE AROUND ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS AS WELL. IT WAS ALSO FOUND THAT THE INDIVIDUALS WERE IN POSSESSION OF TWO ADULT PFD''S THAT THEY STATED WERE WITH THEM DURING THE INCIDIENT. AN ATTEMPT TO CONTACT OPEARTOR 1 THE WEEK AFTER THE INCIDENT BUT WAS UNSUCCESSFUL. DUE TO RECENT HEAVY RAINFALL I WOULD NOT SUSPECT ANY RECOVERY ATTEMPT WOULD BE MADE FOR THE VESSEL. BASED ON THE INTERVIEW IT APPEARS THE CAUSE OF THE VESSEL SINKING WAS DUE TO THE PASSENGERS ACTION OF TRYING TO GET THE BOAT OUT OF THE WATER AND ONTO A TREE LIMB, POSSIBLY TRYING TO GET WATER OUT OF THE VESSEL DUE TO THE RECENT RAIN EVENT.
  