INDIVIDUAL #1 STATED THAT HE WAS OPERATING THE ABOVE VESSEL AROUND FIVE MPH THROUGH THE MAIN GAP INTO LAKE MICHIGAN WHEN THREE TO FOUR WAVES CAME OVER THE FRONT OF THE BOW CAUSING THE BOAT TO SINK. INDIVIDUAL 1 STATED THAT THE WAVES STARTED OFF AROUND AS ONE FOOT WAVES AND THEN CHANGED DRASTICALLY TO APPROXIMATELY SIX FOOT WAVES. INDIVIDUAL 1 STATED THAT THE THREE OR FOUR WAVES HIT THE BOW OF HIS BOAT CONTINUOUSLY WHICH CAUSED THE BOAT TO START SINKING, ONCE THIS VESSEL SANK, A FISHING BOAT OCCUPIED TWICE CAME TO ASSIST, PULLING THE THREE OF THEM OUT OF THE WATER INCLUDING THEIR DOG WHO WAS WEARING A LIFE JACKET. THE FISHERMAN WHO ASSISTED PERFORMED CHEST COMPRESSIONS ON INDIVIDUAL 2 AS SHE WAS UNCONSCIOUS AND UNRESPONSIVE. 

AFTER SEVERAL CHEST COMPRESSIONS, INDIVIDUAL 2 COUGHED UP WATER AND BEAME SEMI ALERT. POLICE AND FIRE ASSISTED WITH INDIVIDUAL 2 RENDERING MEDICAL TREATMENT(OXYGEN) WHILE BACK TO THE MCKINLEY MARINA. INDIVIDUALS 1-3 WERE THEN TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL FOR THEIR INJURIES. INDIVIDUAL 1 STATED THAT HE WAS OPERATING THE BOAT AND INDIVIDUAL 2 WAS SEATED AT THE FRONT (BOW) OF THE VESSEL AND INDIVIDUAL 3 WAS SEATED ON THE BACK OF THE VESSEL AT THE TIME OF THIS INCIDENT, INDIVIDUAL 1 STATED THAT HE BELIEVED HE WAS HYPOTHERMIC AND ONCE AT THE HOSPITAL, HE VOMITED APPROXIMATELY ONE GALLON OF WATER. INDIVIDUAL 1 STATED THAT INDIVIDUAL 2 WAS ADMITTED TO THE HOSPITAL DUE TO HAVING WATER IN HER LUNGS. INDIVIDUAL 3 STATED THAT HE HAD HIS BLOOD PRESSURE TAKEN AT THE HOSPITAL BUT NO FURTHER MEDICAL TREATMENT WAS PROVIDED. ON THE NIGHT OF THE INCIDENT, I OBSERVED THE SUNKEN VESSEL BEING TOWED TO JERRY'S DOCKS LOCATED IN THE CITY OF MILWAUKEE WHILE THE MAJORITY OF THE VESSEL WAS STILL BELOW THE WATER LINE. FOLLOW UP WAS CONDUCTED THE NEXT DAY AT JERRY'S DOCKS TO OBTAIN THE VESSEL'S INFORMATION BUT OBSERVED THE VESSEL TO STILL BE MOSTLY UNDER WATER AT THE DOCK IN THE MILWAUKEE RIVER.
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