RedactedNarrative: ON 05-31-2021 AT APPROXIMATELY 03:47 PM, DOOR COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE AIRED A CALL FOR A WATER RESCUE OF TWO INDIVIDUALS ON A BOAT THAT WAS SINKING ON THE BAY OF GREEN BAY APPROXIMATELY 1.5 MILES OFF THE STONE QUARRY. I WAS AT THE STURGEON BAY DNR OFFICE AT THIS TIME SO RESPONDED WITH STURGEON BAY FIRE DEPARTMENT ON THEIR BOAT WHILE WARDEN 2 RESPONDED FROM POTAWATOMI STATE PARK WITH MY PATROL DONZI. STURGEON BAY FIRE DEPARTMENT AND I ARRIVED ON SCENE AT APPROXIMATELY 04:00 PM. BOTH OCCUPANTS WERE WEARING PFD'S AND STANDING ON TOP OF THE NITRO Z7 BOAT THAT WAS SITTING JUST ABOVE THE WATER'S SURFACE. BOTH WERE BROUGHT ONTO THE STURGEON BAY FIRE DEPARTMENT BOAT AND TAKEN TO THE STONE QUARRY TO BE CHECKED BY EMS. NO INJURIES REPORTED. I INSTRUCTED OPERATOR TO SUBMIT AN OPERATOR'S REPORT WITHIN 10 DAYS OF 05-31-2021. HE STATED HE UNDERSTOOD. OPERATOR STATED HE WAS THE OWNER AND OPERATOR OF THE BOAT. THE DUO STATED THEY HAD BEEN FISHING IN THE AREA AND WERE CRUISING TO ANOTHER FISHING LOCATION. THEY WERE HEADING OUT TO THE BAY
  FROM THE AREA OF SAWYER HARBOR. AT SOME POINT, THE BOAT CAME OFF OF A WAVE AND PASSENGER OBSERVED WATER FLOODING THE INSIDE OF THE BOAT NEAR THEIR FEET. OPERATOR STATED THE ENGINE WOULD NOT START AND THAT HE OBSERVED FIBERGLASS PEELING OFF THE BOAT. BOTH INSISTED THE BOAT HAD NOT COLLIDED WITH ANOTHER OBJECT. DAMAGE TO THE BOAT INCLUDES SIGNIFICANT FIBERGLASS DELAMINATION ON THE PORT SIDE MIDSECTION OF THE BOAT AND SEVERAL STRESS FRACTURES ALONG THE INTERIOR OF THE HULL INCLUDING AREAS ALONG THE PORT AND STARBOARD BOW STORAGE COMPARTMENTS, PORT STERN STORAGE COMPARTMENT, AND STERN LIVE WELL. ACCORDING TO STAFF AT CENTER POINTE MARINA IN STURGEON BAY WI, THIS BOAT IS A TOTAL LOSS DUE TO DAMAGE SUSTAINED IN THIS EVENT. END OF REPORT.