RedactedNarrative: On September 5th, 2021 at approximately 10:45 AM, I, Game Warden, was dispatched by Osage County Sheriff's Office to be en route to an actively sinking boat near the Pomona Lake Marina. I arrived at the Pomona Lake Marina at approximately 11:04 AM and notified Osage County dispatch. They re-advised me the actively sinking boat was actually at Melvern Lake in Eisenhower State Park located at the East Boat Ramp rental slips. After dispatch updated me, they advised that Park Ranger requested my assistance and I drove my patrol truck to the East Boat Ramp. While driving, I radioed dispatch to see if Park Ranger could call me on my work phone. About 10 to15 seconds later, dispatch told me that the park ranger wants me to call him and gave me his cell phone number. I called Park Ranger and he informed me of the situation and what had happened. I arrived at approximately 11:10 AM where I saw two Osage County deputy patrol cars, one Park Ranger patrol truck, and at least one Melvern Corp Ranger patrol truck. I walked out onto the boat slip where I met all the officers. Park Ranger was the first one to approach me to update me on the situation and introduced me to the vessel owner identified as Owner.
  
  Owner informed me that he had traveled down to the state park on Friday, September 3rd and was fixing the trim around the throttle controls on his boat.  After fixing up the boat, he forgot to put the plug in his boat to keep it afloat. Owner said he put the boat in the water and put it in his rental slip "first thing this morning" on September 5th. He said he received a call at approximately 9:30 AM and another call at approximately 10:45 AM to inform him that his boat was taking on water. After getting the news of his sinking boat, Owner told me that he contacted the Melvern Lake Marina and was told by one of the marina employees that they could not help him since Owner's boat was 23 feet in length. After interviewing Owner, the officers, by-standers, and the owner started conversing about how we were going to get the boat back to the dock or ramp.
  
  We eventually contacted Terry's Tow Service out of Lyndon, Kansas for assistance. The tow service arrived on scene approximately 30 minutes later and were able to connect tow hooks to the swamped vessel and slowly pull it out of the water and onto the boat ramp. The vessel was loaded onto a flatbed tow truck and hauled off to a salvage yard. We opened the boat ramp back up and resumed patrol.