RedactedNarrative: On July 4 2014 at approximately 2230 my partner responded to a report of a boat accident involving one boat just south of Tubbs Hill. We followed Deputy1 to the south end of Tubbs Hill and we were unable to locate any vessel. Spokane County Sheriff’s Helicopter (Air 1) was in the area and located the vessel approximately one half mile south of Tubbs Hill in the main channel of Coeur D’Alene Lake between Arrow and Stevens Point. Upon our arrival on scene, Deputy1 contacted the occupants of the submerged vessel who were on 3 vessels that stopped to aid in their recovery from the water. We continued to the submerged vessel to check for any additional occupants. We observed no occupants on the vessel or in the water within the immediate area of the accident scene. 
  
  We returned to Deputy1’s position to assist in the accident investigation. Two males and one female were transferred onto our patrol vessel (Marine 6) from one of the citizen boats that helped in the rescue. 
  
  I asked Operator who was operating the vessel at the time of the accident. He indicated to me that he did not who was operating his vessel at the time of the accident. I asked him where they came from prior to the vessel becoming submerged. Operator remarked that they had been drinking at Carlin Bay Resort. He further remarked to me that they arrived at Carlin Bay Resort with 11 people on his vessel. Operator indicated that when they departed Carlin Bay heading north on the lake they had 14 people on board. He indicated to me that he did not know the identity of the additional occupants that were traveling on his vessel prior to the accident. He informed me that one of the additional people they picked up at the Carlin Bay Resort was the person operating the vessel at the time of the accident. Operator could not give me a general description of the person he allowed to operate his vessel. 
  
  Passenger1, who was highly intoxicated provided me with a name of the person whom he believed was operating the vessel. When I attempted to locate the alleged operator on the three citizen boats and Deputy1’s vessel, all of which had occupants from the accident, no one knew or recognized the name given. 
  
  Upon interviewing Operator I asked him to explain how the vessel became swamped. He informed me that the vessel was traveling approximately “16 miles per hour” and a wave came over the bow filling the cockpit area with water. He remarked that the vessel continued at a slow rate of speed continuing to take on water as the bow of the boat became submerged allowing the rear cockpit area to become filled with lake water forcing the occupants to abandon ship. 
  All of the vessels occupants were then transported back to the 3rd street boat launch by the Marine units on scene. Upon our arrival at 3rd street boat launch, the occupants who were with Sgt. advised that Operator was indeed the operator of the vessel at the time of the accident. They also advised that Passenger1 was the only individual in the front of the boat at the time of the accident. Based upon the statements identifying the operator of the vessel, his admission of consuming alcoholic beverages, the odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from his breath and person Operator was investigated for Operating Under the Influence O.U.I. See crime report #14-16310. They indicated that the window was shut and the windscreen was pulled in order to block the wind from the occupants in the cockpit of the vessel due to colder nighttime temperatures. The occupants advised us that Operator was operating the vessel at a slow rate of speed when a wave from another vessel came over the bow of their boat flooding the open bow. Operator kept driving causing the vessel to nosedive pushing the bow of the boat deeper into the water. This caused the vessel to become completely submerged filling the occupant compartment with lake water. The resulting submersion of the vessel caused the occupants to abandon ship. 
  
  The vessel was reco