RedactedNarrative: Vessel – 2015, 24’ 8” Hewes Sea Pro Open Motorboat w/225 hp Honda Outboard Engine
   
  On 08/17/2016, at about 01:00 p.m., this vessel was cruising in the Pacific Ocean on the South of Submarine Rock, located near Forks, WA in Clallam County.
   
  According to Law Enforcement, Victim and Subject were bottom fishing in this location in about 80 feet of water.  They had just completed a drift and were pairing to move to start another drift.  Subject was seated in the passenger seat and Victim was operating the boat.  The bow of the boat was facing north.  Victim put the motor in gear and was idling forward.   
   
  Subject happened to look out the side (starboard) window and saw a large rouge wave upon them.  The wave was so close that he could not see the top of the wave.  The wave crashed into the boat causing it to roll then tumble counter clockwise.  
   
  Subject found himself trapped in the cabin underneath the boat with his inflatable PFD, inflated.  He pulled himself out of the cabin, under the gunwale then out of the boat.  He did not see Victim while he was underneath the boat.  He got on top of the hull and held onto the shaft of the motor to keep from being washed off.  Subject had been clinging to the motor for some time when he heard a motor running and thought he was hallucinating. 
   
  Good Samaritan was underway when he spotted, what at first he thought was a whale.  Good Samaritan then realized it was a man clinging to a hull of an overturned boat.  He pulled up to the overturned boat, threw Subject a life ring and pulled him aboard his vessel.  Good Samaritan radioed the USCG for help.
   
  A rescue swimmer later found Victim' body underneath the capsized hull.
   
  0 Injuries / 1 Fatality
  No apparent alcohol involvement
  The vessel was a Total Loss with an estimated value of $45,000
  Both Victim and Subject were wearing PFDs
  The Operator did have a mandatory Boater Education Card – Exempt by Age
  