RedactedNarrative: ON FEBRUARY 20, 2016 AT 1451 HOURS I HEARD WARRICK COUNTY DISPATCH, DISPATCH A DEPUTY TO THE NEWBURGH DAM AREA.  THEY HAD A CALL IN FROM A SUBJECT WALKING IN THE AREA BETWEEN THE NEWBURGH OVERLOOK AND THE NEWBURGH BOAT RAMP.  THE CALLER ADVISED THEY HAD OBSERVED TWO SUBJECTS CLINGING TO A LOG AND HOLLERING FOR HELP IN THE OHIO RIVER JUST DOWNSTREAM OF THE NEWBURGH DAM.
  
  OFFICER#1 AND MYSELF RESPONDED TO NEWBURGH BOAT RAMP.  UPON ARRIVING BOTH VICTIMS HAD BEEN RESCUED AND HAD BEEN TRANSPORTED TO DEACONESS GATEWAY HOSPITAL IN NEWBURGH BY MEDIC 6 UNIT.
  
  I INTERVIEWED BOTH VICTIMS (SUBJECT#1, SUBJECT#2) AT DEACONESS GATEWAY EMERGENCY ROOM.  BOTH SUBJECTS WERE BEING TREATED FOR HYPOTHERMIA.  SUBJECT#2 SEEMED TO BE DOING FINE IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM AND WAS ABLE TO GIVE ME A VERBAL STATEMENT.  SUBJECT#1'S BODY TEMPERATURE WAS AT 90 DEGREES AND WAS ONLY ABLE TO TALK FOR A SHORT TIME.  SUBJECT#2 ADVISED THAT SUBJECT#1 AND HIM HAD BEEN FISHING OUT OF A 16 FOOT FLAT BOTTOM BOAT WITH A 9.9 EVENRUDE MOTOR ON THE BACK OF IT.  THEY HAD ANCHORED APPROXIMATELY 25 TO 30 YARDS OFF THE LONG WALL THAT EXTENDED DOWN STREAM OF THE NEWBURGH DAM.  ALSO APPROXIMATELY 40 YARDS UPSTREAM OF THE END OF THE LONG WALL. SUBJECT#1 ADVISED THAT THEY HAD ANCHORED OFF THE BOW OF THE BOAT.  WHEN THEY ATTEMPTED TO LIFT THE ANCHOR, THAT IT HAD GOTTEN STUCK ON THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER.  HE ADVISED HE CONTINUED TO PULL ON THE ROPE AND IT PULLED THE FRONT OF THE BOAT DOWN INTO THE WATER INTO THE CURRENT.  IT TOOK ON WATER VERY QUICKLY AND SWAMPED THE BOAT TOSSING SUBJECT#2 AND SUBJECT#1 INTO THE RIVER.  SUBJECT#2 ADVISED HE WAS WEARING A WET SUIT AND A LIFE JACKET.  HE ADVISED HIS BROTHER SUBJECT#1 DID NOT HAVE EITHER ON.  SUBJECT#1 ATTEMPTED TO SWIM TO THE LADDER AT THE DOWNSTREAM END OF NEWBURGH DAMS LONG WALL.  BUT THE CURRENT SWEPT HIM PAST THE LADDER DOWNSTREAM.  SUBJECT#2 CAUGHT UP WITH HIM IN THE WATER AND GAVE HIM A LIFEJACKET TO PUT ON.  AT THAT TIME SUBJECT#1 WAS SO COLD HE WAS NOT ABLE TO PUT THE LIFE JACKET ALL THE WAY ON.  HE INSTEAD HUNG ONTO THE LIFEJACKET WITH ONE HAND AND GRABBED A FLOATING LOG WITH THE OTHER.  THEY ADVISED THEY FLOATED DOWNSTREAM THAT WAY FOR APPROXIMATELY 20 MINUTES UNTIL THEY WERE RESCUED BY SUBJECTS ON A TOW BOAT.  THEY HAD NO IDEA WHO HAD RESCUED THEM.  SUBJECT#2 ADVISED THAT NEWBURGH FIRE DEPARTMENT BOAT THEN ARRIVED AND TRANSPORTED THEM TO THE AMBULANCE AT NEWBURGH RAMP. 
  
  I INTERVIEWED SUBJECT#1 THE NEXT DAY BY TELEPHONE.  SUBJECT#1 ADVISED ME THE SAME STORY AS HIS BROTHER EXCEPT THAT WHEN THEY WERE TRYING TO GET THE STUCK ANCHOR UP OFF THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER, THAT HE HAD MOTORED FORWARD TO TRY TO BREAK IT LOOSE.  THAT WAS WHEN THE BOW HAD WENT DOWN INTO THE CURRENT AND SWAMPED THE BOAT.
  
  OFFICERS#2 AND #1 RETRIEVED THE BOAT/MOTOR FROM THE OHIO RIVER ON THE SAME DAY AS THE ACCIDENT.  THE BOAT WAS A 12' SEARS JON BOAT WITH A 9.9 EVENRUDE ON IT INSTEAD OF A 16' JON BOAT. THERE WAS NO VISIBLE DAMAGE TO THE BOAT OR MOTOR.  THE BOAT WAS TOWED BY HAMRICKS TOWING TO THEIR YARD.  
  
  ON FEBRUARY 23, 2016 I INTERVIEWED (BY TELEPHONE) GOOD SAMARITAN#1 A PILOT OF THE ARTHUR J. CARSON TOW BOAT. THE TOW IS OWNED BY INGRAM BARGE COMPANY.   GOOD SAMARITAN#1 ADVISED ME THAT HIS TOW WAS JUST DOWNSTREAM OF THE NEWBURGH LOCK AND DAM ON THE DAY OF THE ACCIDENT.  HE ADVISED THAT NEWBURGH DAM PERSONAL HAD RADIOED HIM THAT TWO PEOPLE WERE IN THE WATER NEEDING HELP.  HE ADVISED THAT HE SENT TWO OF HIS WORKERS OUT WITH A SKIFF (BOAT) AND THEY RESCUED BOTH SUBJECTS OUT OF THE WATER.  HE ADVISED THAT HIS WORKERS WRAPPED BOTH SUBJECTS IN BLANKETS TOOK THEM TO THE VIVIAN B TOW BOAT THAT WAS NEAR BY.   NEWBURGH FIRE DEPARTMENT BOAT THEN RELAYED THEM TO NEWBURGH RAMP TO THE AMBULANCE.