RedactedNarrative: On12/04/14 I CPO was on duty and located near McClure, IL. in Alexander County.  I heard an ambulance and the Union County rescue squad get dispatched to a private lake where a subject was clinging to the side of a boat immersed in water.  I advised State Police radio that I was enroute to Dug Hill Lane and stated the nature of the call.
         EMT personnel arrived while I was enroute.  I arrived at approximately 4:50 PM.  The victim   was being transported by boat to shore by EMT''s when I arrived.  I assisted carrying Victim to the ambulance in a stokes basket.  Victim was shaking involuntarily, and his speech was inaudible.
         Once Victim was in the ambulance I spoke with several people on scene.  Relative stated that he had heard Victim’s brother yelling for help as he was returning from deer hunting.  Relative ran to the edge of the lake on the property.  From the shore he observed Victim clinging to the side of a partially submerged john boat in the lake approximately 30 feet from shore.  Relative ran around the lake to an adjacent residence and located a section of rope and returned to the scene.  Relative, who is unable to swim, attempted to throw the rope end out to Victim.  This was unsuccessful.  
         Relative called 911 and reported the incident to Union County personnel.  Relative could see Victim’s brother at his residence approximately 200 yards away.  Relative began shouting toward Victim’s brother and shining his flashlight at him. 
         Victim’s brother noticed the commotion and drove up to the scene.  Once at the shore of the lake and realizing what the situation was, brother pulled a small john boat off of the shore and paddled it toward his brother whom was still clinging to the side of the boat.  When Brother reached his brother he pulled him into the boat and paddled him to the closest shore (where Relative was located).
         EMT personnel arrived moments later.  EMT''s accessed the subjects by land, walking around a long narrow finger in the lake.  Rescue personnel placed Victim back into a boat and paddled him across the finger due to the long, rugged transport around the shoreline.  
        I traveled to the Union County Hospital.  I spoke to Hospital personnel who stated that Victim was hypothermic, but was expected to be fine.  I spoke with both Relative and Victim’s brother at the hospital, and revisited the facts of the incident.  Relative provided a written statement (see attached).
        Operator stated that he had paddled the small boat across the finger to access his deer hunting area.  He sat in the bow of the boat (elevating the stern) and paddled the approximate 120 feet.  Victim secured the boat on the opposite shore, pulling the bow onto dry ground.  Victim went deer hunting, shot a small deer, and returned to the boat close to sunset.  He pushed the boat into the water and climbed aboard, and began paddling.  Victim stated the boat was very hard to paddle, and he realized that it was partially full of water.  ***The plug was not in this boat, and it had filled while he hunted***.  Victim panicked and the boat listed and capsized.  He clung to a PFD and the side of the overturned boat as first Relative, and then Victim’s brother attempted to rescue him.  
         A subsequent visit with Victim (approximately a week after the incident) confirmed that he had made a full recovery.  I discussed the boating safety laws with him and what equipment is required on watercraft.  I also gave Victim applications for watercraft registration and advised him registration is required on private property.  Victim stated he had not recovered his Remington 870