RedactedNarrative: Officer (FWC) was first on scene. I arrived approximately twenty minutes later. I observed one person still in the water with the swamped vessel. A good "SAM" was using his boat in a stern tow to pull the swamped vessel in an attempt to remove the water from inside the vessel. I observed the vessel undertow before it sank again. The good "SAM" managed to get the boat up and planned off. He towed the vessel to Shoreline boat ramp where a truck and trailer were waiting. When the momentum of the towing vessel slowed down the swamped vessel quickly filled up again and sank behind the trailer at the boat ramp for a third time.
  
  With the vessel crew and assistance from others at the ramp, they loaded the vessel on the trailer and pulled it from the water. While on the trailer I observed an eighteen inch long by one inch wide crack in one of the port lifting strakes forward of the middle of the vessel. Water was pouring back out of the compromised hull.
  
  The operator of the vessel stated that he noticed some water on the deck after they stopped at a restaurant and were out of the vessel. Before loading back in the vessel he used the electric bilge pump to remove the water. Then the group of four spent a half hour tubing behind the vessel at Quietwater Beach before heading home. 
  
  With four persons onboard they were making way in the Intracoastal waterway near the Bob Sikes Bridge headed in a westerly direction. He stated that the motor started sputtering and he noticed more water on the deck. He tried to pump it out with the bilge pump but the electric bilge pump quit working. 
  
  With more water in the hull and the stability of the vessel decreasing, he ran the boat toward shore until it ran aground in water less than three feet deep. Everyone got out the vessel without injury and dragged the vessel as far as they could toward the beach. 
  
  Two good "SAM'S" from shore assisted everyone in an attempt the get the water out when FWC arrived on scene. 
  
  Subject stated that the vessel was not his but belonged to his brother.  He stated that they bought the boat without the engine for 300.00 and repaired several areas of the hull. The patch work was apparent (see photo).  The compromised area was an area that had been previously repaired.