RedactedNarrative: VESSEL1 WAS BEING OPERATED BY OPERATOR 1 ON LAKE POWELL AND WAS RETURNING TO SHORE NEAR THE WAHWEAL BUOY FIELD. ALSO ON BOARD WERE PASSENGERS 1-3 (TOTAL OF 4 PERSONS ON BOARD). PASSENGERS 2 AND 3 (JUVENILES) WERE WEARING PROPERLY SIZED PFDs. DUE TO INCREASED WIND, A LARGE WAVE CAME OVER THE BOW OF THE VESSEL AND SWAMPED THE VESSEL. NEARBY VESSELS ASSISTED BY TAKING PASSENGERS 1-3 OFF VESSEL 1 AND TO SHORE. OPERATOR 1 DONNED HIS PFD AND WITH THE HELP OF FAMILY MEMBERS ON ANOTHER VESSEL, ATTEMPTED TO RECOVER VESSEL 1, BUT WERE UNABLE TO DO SO AND ABANDONED VESSEL 1.
  
  VESSEL 1 BEGAN TAKING ON WATER. THE PASSENGERS AND OPERATOR WERE TAKEN OFF OF THE VESSEL BY NEARBY BOATS AD WERE CONTACTED ON LAND AT STATELINE RAMP. AFTER INFORMATION HAD BEEN COLLECTED FOR REPORTS, OPERATOR 1 AND A FAMILY MEMBER DEPARTED IN OTHER VESSEL IN AN ATTEMPT TO RECOVER VESSEL 1. THEY WERE MET BY EXECUTIVE SERVICES AND VESSEL 1 WAS RECOVERED.