RedactedNarrative: AT APPROXIMATELY 1515 HOURS (HRS), 14 SEPTEMBER 2018, OWNER INFORMEND ME, OFFICER, HIS VESSEL STRUCK AN UNDERWATER OBJECT AND WAS SUBSEQUENTLY DAMAGED. I WAS WEARING MY DIVISION ISSUED UNIFORM AND BADGE OF OFFICE WHEN I MET OWNER AT NAVAJO LAKE STATE PARK'S PINE VISITOR'S CENTER. OWNER BROUGHT HIS VESSEL TO THE VISITOR'S CENTER AND PROCEEDED TO SHOW ME THE DAMAGE. THE VESSEL WAS A 25' CENTURION R1257. THE PROPELLER APPEARED TO HAVE BEEN FORCIBLY PRESSED INTO THE VESSEL'S STERN HULL, BENDING THE PROPELLER AND LEAVING AN APPROXIMATE 10" DIAMETER DEPRESSED AREA IN THE HULL. THE HULL ALSO SUFFERED CRACKS AND SCRAPES THAT PERFORATED THROUGH THE GEL COAT, EXPOSING THE UNDERLYING FIBERGLASS. THE DAMAGE IS ESTIMATED AT $11,000. 
  
  OWNER EXPLAINED HE WAS SURFING BEHIND THE VESSEL ON SEPTEMBER 13, 2018, AT APPOROXIMATELY 2000 HRS. WHEN THE INCIDENT OCCURRED, AND HIS FRIEND, OPERATOR, WAS THE OPERATOR. OWNER STATED HE "SAW THE HAZARD LAST WEEK AND TRIED TO SIGNAL TO OPERATOR HE WAS GETTING TOO CLOSE." AT THIS TIME, OPERATOR ARRIVED ON SCENE TO PROVIDE A STATEMENT. OPERATOR EXPLAINED HE WAS TRAVELING INTO FRANCIS CANYON AT 11 MPH WHEN THE VESSEL "STRUCK AN UNDERWATER OBJECT 200 METERS FROM THE SHORELINE." NEITHER PARTY SUSTAINED PHYSICAL INJURIES. I EXPLAINED TO OWNER AND OPERATOR I WOULD PRODUCE A NEW MEXICO STATE PARKS BOATING ACCIDENT REPORT. 
  
  THE OBJECT BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN STRUCK BY OWNER'S VESSEL WAS LATER IDENTIFIED AS PART OF AN UNDERWATER RIDGE COMPRISED OF ROCK, LOCATED NO MORE THAN 50 METERS FROM THE SHORELINE. AT THE TIME OF THE INCIDENT, THERE WAS A HAZARD BUOY WITHIN 150' OF THE RIDGE. AN ADDITIONAL HAZARD BUOY WAS PLACED IN THE AREA NO LATER THAN THREE HOURS AFTER THE INCIDENT WAS REPORTED. PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE DAMAGE ARE ATTACHED. NO PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE HAZARD OR BUOYS ARE AVAILABLE DUE TO THE DELAY IN REPORTING THE INCIDENT, AND THE RAPIDLY CHANGING WATER LEVELS OF NAVAJO LAKE.
  
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