RedactedNarrative: Subject left his residence around 7:30pm and put in at Rock Quarry around 8:00pm.  Traveled up river to the Bankhead Dam and traveled up next to the generator discharge area to fish.  
  
  Subject heard the alarm go off and tried to get everything put up to leave.  The subject stated that as soon he reached for the rope to untie the boat he saw the wall of water coming.  
  
  Both subjects in the boat were thrown from the boat and up against the rocky walls.  The subjects klinged to the wall all night.  One of the subject made it up the wall to get help. After interviewing both the driver and passenger, neither were wearing the required PFD below the dam of 800 ft according to the Alabama State Law. The operator of the boat had no boating license at the time of the accident.