RedactedNarrative: On March 21, 2015 at 23:04 Cpl. was notified by GSP Statesboro to contact Laurens County 911 reference a boating incident. Cpl. contacted Laurens County 911 and was informed Laurens County had received a report from Johnson County at 22:24 stating that a vessel was overturned on the Oconee River with at least two persons holding onto the vessel and the victims had yelled at caller to contact 911. 
  
  Cpl. advised Laurens County and GSP that he would be responding. Laurens County had dispatched law enforcement and Fire units at 22:29. Cpl. was 10-76 to retrieve his vessel when he received an update from Laurens County that the subjects had been located and taken to the boat landing at the Beaverdam Wildlife Management Area (BDWMA) at 23:24. 
  
  Cpl. responded to the scene without a vessel arriving at 00:09 on March 22, 2015. On scene Cpl. learned that Deputy had boarded a vessel with an unidentified fishermen and located three subjects in their disabled vessel approximately .25 miles upriver from the BDWMA boat landing and towed them back to the boat landing. 
  
  When Cpl. arrived one victim was already receiving treatment from Emergency Medical Service (EMS). Cpl. received an update reference the incident from Laurens County Rural Fire unit Jared Mathis. Cpl. interviewed two subjects, and he stated that he and the other two subjects had launched the vessel at approximately 15:30 – 16:00 at the Blackshear Ferry boat landing to go for a boat ride. He stated that he and the other two subjects went up river past the BDWMA boat landing and at dusk had turned around to return to Blackshear’s Ferry landing. 
  
  He stated that at some point he stood up in the vessel to urinate and the vessel began to take on water and then overturned and that he nor the passengers were wearing PFD’s. One of the other subjects was struggling to swim and that the other passenger was able to reach him and pull him back to the vessel. 
  
  Operator then stated that he and his passengers were able to “swim the vessel” to shore, right the vessel, remove the water and re-enter the vessel. He stated that the motor would not start. When the subjects came into view of a residence on the shore line of the river they began to yell for help prompting the resident to contact 911. Operator stated that he borrowed the vessel from a relative and that he had three Personal Floatation Devices (PFD’s) and a throwable floatation device in the vessel while operating it on the river. 
  
  After the incident No PFD’s were recovered and one throwable floatation device was located in the vessel. Cpl. could detect an odor of alcohol coming from Operator and he stated that he had consumed two beers earlier in the day. Cpl. conducted Standard Field Sobriety Testing on the subject, but determined he was not impaired to constitute a charge for Boating Under the Influence or less safe operation. 
  
  Victim stated that he had consumed 3-4 beers.