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  Responded to the Main Boat Ramp at Sand Hollow State Park on a boat that had sunk as it was being launched.
  
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  On July 2, 2017, I was called by a seasonal employee working at the entrance station at Sand Hollow State Park and informed of a boat that had sunk at the main boat ramp. I notified dispatch and proceeded to the Main Boat Ramp. Arriving on scene, I could only see the front 2 feet of the boat still above water. The only thing keeping the boat from completely sinking was a rope that was tied to the dock. I made contact with the boat owner and verified that no one was hurt and that no one was on board. 
  
  I hurried and got in the Sand Hollow Patrol Boat and activated its emergency equipment and parked the patrol boat at the end of the dock, blocking the public from accidently hitting the boat. I called out Washington County Search and Rescue to recover the boat. While waiting for Search and Rescue to arrive, the boat owner informed me that he had just purchased the boat the day before and that he had forgotten to put in the drain plug when he launched the boat. 
  
  Search and Rescue arrive on scene and used an air bag attached to the back end of the boat to float it back onto its trailer. Before they loaded the boat onto the trailer, Search and Rescue verified that there was no drain plug in the boat. As the boat was pulled from the water, I could clearly see that there was no plug in the drain plug hole. 
  We pulled the boat off the ramp to drain so we would not contaminate the water with fuel or oil further. I released the boat at that time.
  
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