RedactedNarrative: On sunday, may 24, 2020 operator, his daughter and girlfriend were boating on lake gaston. They went to wobble island, upon leaving operator discovered that his vessel would not shift into forward gear. The only gear that his vessel would shift into was reverse. Operator decided that he would try his best to make it back to summit access area using reverse. 
  
  While he was slowly trying to get back to the ramp at summit and just south of pea hill creek bridge, he heard his daughter scream "daddy, we''re sinking". Operator looked around for other boats to help him but was not successful at this time. The boat rapidly began to fill with water to the point the bow was pointing upwards to the sky. Operator told his daughter to jump out of the boat. 
  
  He grabbed his girlfriend, due to the fact that she can not swim well  and assisted her to a near by pontoon boat that arrived on scene after observing the sinking vessel. The people in the pontoon also got the daughter into their boat while operator tried to go back and save the dog that was on board his vessel. The dog ran to the front of the cabin as the vessel went down. 
  
  Operator tried to dive down to enter the vessel but it was sinking to fast. After being unsuccessful to save the dog, operator boarded the pontoon. The individuals in the pontoon gave them a ride back to summit access area. Through the investigation sgt. and officer found where the vessel went down in approximately 35 foot of water. The pontoon that picked up operator and his family carried them back to summit access area. The witnesses interviewed said operator was operating the vessel  and informed investigating officers where he lived. Sgt. and officer patrolled to 911 marshall st to interview operator and give him the mb4.1. Sgt. contacted dominion energy, the epa, and nc department of environmental quality in reference to operator’s boat sinking in lake gaston. No department that sgt. contacted could give him a law or reason requiring operator to remove his vessel from lake gaston.
  