RedactedNarrative: On the evening of 7/5/2018 Operator and occupant were fishing around the sandbar located adjacent to JT Myers Lock and Dam. Through an interview with Operator I found that the vessel they were fishing from had an engine malfunction. The engine would not start. As the boat started drifting closer to the dam the two subjects put on life jackets and threw the anchor. Operator said the anchor did not catch and they tried throwing the anchor again a second time. By this time the boat had already rounded the wier wall and was pulled into the dam. The two subjects struggled under the turbulence, Operator was able to feel a screw sticking from the dam wall and was able to put his foot on it and lean his body back against the wall to stay in place. He then grabbed Occupant and held on to him until rescue arrived. The boat was left tied to a sandbar just adjacent to the dam and it was turned upside down. 
  
  