ON 04/13/2023 AT APPROXIMATELY 2:00PM VESSEL ONE (V1) WAS TROLLING NORTHBOUND APPROXIMATELY 500 YARDS OFF SHORE FROM SOUTHPORT MARINA IN APPROXIMATELY 25-30FT OF WATER. V1, BEING OPERATED BY V1 Operator, BEGAN MAKING A WESTBOUND (LEFT) TURN TO HEAD SOUTHBOUND WHEN IT WAS OVERTURNED BY A WAVE COMING FROM THE SOUTHEAST. TWO PASSENGERS WERE ON BOARD, Passenger 1 WHO WAS SITTING IN THE PASSENGER SEAT NEXT TO V1 Operator, AND THE OPERATORS GRANDSON WHO WAS SITTING ON THE BOW. AS V1 OVERTURNED THE THREE WERE THROWN INTO THE 45 DEGREE WATER. BOTH PASSENGERS INFLATABLE LIFE JACKETS INFLATED, HOWEVER V1 Operator'S DID NOT. A GOOD SAMARITAN OBSERVED V1 OVERTURNED AND WAS ABLE TO GET ALL THREE OUT OF THE WATER. THE COAST GUARD LATER ARRIVED ON SCENE AND ESCORTED/TRANSPORTED THE PASSENGERS TO LOCAL EMS. V1 Operator WAS TREATED AT THE LOCAL AURORA HOSPITAL FOR HYPOTHERMIA AND LATER RELEASED 6 HOURS LATER. AFTER THE OCCUPANTS OF THE BOAT WERE WITH EMS THE COAST GUARD WENT BACK OUT TO V1'S LOCATION, HOWEVER IT HAD DRIFTED INTO THE ROCKS AT SOUTHPORT MARINA. V1 WAS SECURED ON THE ROCKS AND TOWBOAT US WAS NOTIFIED. LATER ON APRIL 16TH A GROUP OF FISHERMEN TOWED THE OVERTURNED BOAT FROM THE ROCKS TO THE KENOSHA HARBOR BOAT LAUNCH WITHOUT THE BOAT OWNERS APPROVAL. IT IS UNKNOWN IF THIS CAUSED ANY OTHER DAMAGE TO THE BOAT.
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