RedactedNarrative:   ON 7/3/2022 AT APPROXIMATELY 7:00 PM, I, INDIANA CONSERVATION OFFICER WAS CONTACTED BY CLEAR LAKE TOWN MARSHAL, REFERENCE TO A BOAT ACCIDENT THAT OCCURRED ON CLEAR LAKE IN STEUBEN COUNTY. TOWN MARSHAL ADVISED THAT HE RESPONDED TO A MEDICAL CALL. ONCE HE ARRIVED HE FOUND OUT THAT THE INCIDENT WAS A BOATING ACCIDENT. HE SPOKE WITH THE VICTIM, VICTIM 1, WHO ADVISED HE WAS RIDING IN THE LEFT REAR PASSENGER AREA OF THE 2015 NAUTIQUE BOAT BEARING REGISTRATION. THEY WERE WAKE SURFING, WHEN THE SURFER FELL, VICTIM 1 JUMPED OFF THE PORT SIDE OF THE BOAT. THE BOAT OPERATOR THEN BEGAN TURNING RIGHT TO PICK UP THE SURFER. THE PROPELLER STRUCK VICTIM 1 IN THE RIGHT THIGH CAUSING INJURY.   
          TOWN MARSHAL THEN SPOKE WITH THE OPERATOR, OPERATOR 1. OPERATOR 1 ADVISED THEY WERE WAKE SURFING WHEN THE SURFER FELL. DURING HIS TURN TO PICK UP THE SURFER, VICTIM 1 JUMPED OUT THE PORT SIDE OF THE BOAT. THE PROPELLER THEN STRUCK VICTIM 1'S RIGHT THIGH. THEY THEN DROVE VICTIM 1 BACK TO SHORE TO BE TREATED BY FIRE AND EMS PERSONNEL. OPERATOR 1 ADVISED THAT VICTIM 1 HAD BEEN DRINKING AND WAS INTOXICATED. TOWN MARSHAL ADVISED THAT OPERATOR 1 DID NOT APPEAR TO BE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL AT THE TIME OF THE INCIDENT.   
          I THEN SPOKE WITH BOTH PARTIES BY PHONE. OPERATOR 1 ADVISED THAT VICTIM 1 WAS DRUNK AND FOR SOME REASON JUMPED OUT OF THE BOAT WHEN HE WAS TURNING AROUND TO PICK UP THE SURFER. HE STATED HE DOES NOT KNOW WHY HE JUMPED OUT OF THE BOAT. VICTIM 1 THEN STATED HE WAS REACHING FOR THE ROPE TO HAND TO THE SURFER WHEN THE WAKE SHIFTED THE BOAT CAUSING HIM TO LOSE BALANCE. THIS CAUSED VICTIM 1 TO FALL OVERBOARD, IN TURN BEING STRUCK BY THE PROPELLER. VICTIM 1 WAS TRANSPORTED TO PARKVIEW REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER IN FORT WAYNE FOR A 3" LACERATION TO HIS RIGHT THIGH. VICTIM 1 STATED HE WAS ABLE TO BE STITCHED AND RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL WITHOUT SURGERY.   
  