RedactedNarrative: INITIAL CALL:
  
  At approximately 1230 hours on 8/11/16 I called in service and on a local vessel patrol in the Bullfrog area. Immediately after this I was contacted by NPS Ranger and asked if I could respond to the Hall's Creek Bay area where there were reports of 1 swamped ski type boat near the mouth of Hall's Creek and 1 swamped/sunk houseboat in Hall's Creek. I agreed to respond to Hall's Creek and try to locate these vessels. Ranger stated that the swamped ski boat had been reported to him by another visitor who had towed the vessel to its current location and beached it after the vessel had struck a rock and received damage causing it to take on water. This visitor did not know the location of the vessel owner/operator at the time.
  
  INVESTIGATION:
  
  I took photo's of the vessel and it's swamped condition. I opened the glove box of the vessel and located the vessel registration certificate and photographed that as well, identifying the name of the owners. The vessel was securely attached to shore and could not be moved without a de-watering pump so I notified dispatch of the registration information and exact location. I asked them to contact Aramark's executive services office and inform them that when the owner of this vessel contacted them to tow/remove the vessel that the owner would need to speak to a law enforcement officer before any services could be provided. I then cleared the scene and began searching for the sunk/swamped houseboat.
  
  At approximately 1600 hours on 8/11/16 I entered the Aramark executive services office to inquire if the owner of the Maxum vessel had contacted them. The owner of the vessel was sitting in the office waiting to see if they could de-water and tow the vessel that day. I informed him that I was there looking for him, which surprised him. I informed him he was required to report vessel accidents to law enforcement and that he needed an accident report completed for his accident. OPERATOR stated he had contacted his insurance company and thought he was reporting it by trying to get it towed back to the launch ramp. I informed him that was not properly reporting his accident to the nearest law enforcement officer but that we could overlook that oversight now that I had found him.
  
  I had OPERATOR give me his insurance information and had him fill out a witness statement. I asked him what had occurred to cause his vessel to become swamped. OPERATOR stated that he had been with a boy scout group and they had gone to Rainbow Bridge. He stated when they were heading back up the lake a storm event had started so they had turned into a canyon to wait out the rain and strong winds. OPERATOR stated after the worst of the storm had passed they began boating back upstream. He stated he had 8 total people on the boat including himself two other adults with 5 boy scouts on the vessel. He stated that they were all wearing PFD's.
  
  OPERATOR stated that just upstream of Cathedral Canyon he had been passing another vessel heading upstream on that vessel's left side and due to the low sun's reflection on the water and the choppy condition of the water/waves due to the storm, he did not see a shallow rock hazard and struck it with his vessel. He stated he knew it had broken at least one of the two propellers on the boat as well as cracking the outdrive and the boat was taking on water. He stated a friend he was traveling along with began to tow them upstream toward Bullfrog. OPERATOR stated after dropping off the group he returned to his vessel with his friend and found his bilge had stopped working and the vessel was now swamped at the site they beached it.
  
  On 8/12/2016 NPS Ranger took photo's of OPERATOR's vessel once it was towed to Bullfrog and placed on it's trailer. The outdrive of the vessel had sustained significant damage and could no longer be raised. The outdrive had to be removed from the stern of the vessel to travel down the road. Ranger provided me with the photos he took for this report (attached).
  