RedactedNarrative: ON 09/04/2022, AT APPROXIMATELY 5:00 PM, I INDIANA CONSERVATION OFFICER WAS PATROLLING LAKE FREEMAN IN THE AREA OF VOLLEYBALL ISLAND. I LOCATED PARTIALLY SUBMERGED SUPRA SUNSPORT MOTORBOAT. THE BOAT WAS APPROXIMATELY 15 YARDS AWAY FROM THE ISLAND AND WAS ALMOST FULL OF WATER.  SEVERAL PEOPLE IN THE AREA STATED THE BOAT CRASHED AND THE PERSON JUST LEFT IT THERE.     
  UPON REPORTING MY FINDINGS TO ICO DISPATCH, THEY INFORMED ME THAT THEY HAD RECEIVED A CALL EARLIER FROM OP1. OP1 INFORMED ICO DISPATCH THAT HE HAD HIT AN OBJECT UNDERWATER AND HIS BOAT WAS SINKING.      
  A GROUP OF PEOPLE ON THE DOCK ADVISED ME THAT THE BOAT WAS BEING OPERATED BY A MALE AND AS HE WAS EXITING THE IDLE ZONE AT IDLE SPEED HIS BOAT CAME TO A STOP. THEY FURTHER EXPLAINED THAT ANOTHER BOAT PULLED THEM OFF A SUBMERGED OBJECT AND TOWED THEM BACK TO VOLLEYBALL ISLAND. LASTLY, THEY EXPLAINED THE SUBJECT GATHERED ALL HIS BELONGINGS FROM THE BOAT AND GOT INTO ANOTHER BOAT AND LEFT THE AREA.         
  I CALLED OP1 TO GATHER DETAILS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE AND AFTER THE CRASH. OP1 STATED THAT HE WAS DRIVING SOUTHBOUND ON LAKE FREEMAN EXITING THE IDLE ZONE AT VOLLEYBALL ISLAND WHEN HIS BOAT CAME TO A COMPLETE STOP APPROXIMATELY SIXTY YARDS SOUTH OF THE SOUTHERN IDLE ZONES BUOYS. OP1 ATTEMPTED TO REMOVE HIS BOAT FROM THE OBJECT BY PUTTING HIS BOAT IN FORWARD AND REVERSE, AFTER SEVERAL ATTEMPTS ANOTHER BOATER CAME TO HIS AID AND PULLED HIM OFF THE OBJECT HE WAS STUCK ON.     
  ONCE OP1'S BOAT WAS OFF THE OBJECT, HE IMMEDIATELY SAW THAT IT WAS TAKING ON WATER AND WAS IN DANGER OF SINKING. OP1 WAS TOWED TO VOLLEYBALL ISLAND AND BEACHED HIS BOAT AND CALLED INDIANA CENTRAL DISPATCH. AFTER TALKING WITH CENTRAL DISPATCH, OP1 CLAIMED THAT THEY INFORMED HIM TO GO HOME ONCE HE HAD WORKED OUT A RECOVERY PLAN FOR HIS BOAT. OP1 ADVISED THAT DC MARINE IN MONTICELLO WAS GOING TO RECOVER HIS BOAT ON 09/06/2022. I GATHERED OP1'S EMAIL ADDRESS AND EMAILED HIM A BOAT CRASH FORM.     
  ON 09/06/2022 I WENT  TO DC MARINE IN MONTICELLO AND . I TOOK PICTURES OF THE BOAT. I OBSERVED A VERY LARGE HOLE APPROXIMATELY 3 INCHES WIDE AND 8 INCHES LONG ON THE VERY BOTTOM ON THE BOAT, IN THE EXACT MIDDLE OF THE BOAT.  THERE WERE A FEW SCUFF MARKS ON THE BOTTOM OF THE BOAT JUST BEFORE THIS HOLE, BUT OTHER THAN THAT I FOUND NO OTHER DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE INCIDENT.                        
  