RedactedNarrative: On July 24th, at approximately 2005 hours, Game Wardens received a call from GSP regarding a missing boater, Subject1, at Brown’s Landing on the Ocmulgee River. Game Wardens responded to Brown’s Landing and met with the subject’s father. The subject’s father notified Game Wardens upon arrival that his son was okay, but that the boat had floated away and sank. Other boaters noticed gear from inside the boat floating down the river and called 911. Plans were made by the subject to remove the vessel from the river.
  
  	Game Wardens interviewed the boat operator, Subject1, who stated that he had a new transom put on the boat and it started leaking. The operator stopped on a sandbar where the vessel began taking on water. He stated the vessel was “about ankle deep” in water when he began traveling back down the river. The vessel’s new motor, a 30 horsepower Tohatsu, cut off when going around a bend in the river. The side of the boat dipped, and a wave came over the gunwale, sinking it. The boat sank just up river from Boney’s Landing and is presumed to be on the bottom of the river. The operator has been back on the river removing gear and debris that floated from his vessel.
  
  	The Vessel is a 1994 Alumacraft Crappie Jr. Jon Boat that is 14 feet long. The registration number is GA 0143XF, expiring 9/24. The total loss of the boat and motor combined came out to be $5,500.
  