Vessel 1 was traveling east from the west side of the lake. Owner of vessel1 stated he felt the vessel strike something near the rudder and the vessel immediately lost power. The vessel started taking on water. The occupants flagged down a nearby vessel and were towed towards shore. The owner and passengers put on pfds. 

The vessel went completely under approximately 200 feet from the shoreline nothwest of the lake carl blackwell store. Due to conflicting descriptions of tier location at impact, investigating officer is unable to get an approximate location of impact point. Owner/operator believes he struck a tree trunk just below the surface of the water with a depth of 26 feet. After the boat was retrieved from the water, a hole was located beside the port side rudder and damage was observed on the propeller.

LAKE CARL BLACKWELL
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