ON MARCH 22, 2023, AT APPROXIMATELY 2:20 PM A WATER RESCUE WAS INITIATED BY MONTGOMERY COUNTY DISPATCH. I, TEXAS GAME WARDEN AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY PRECINCT 1 CONSTABLE LIEUTENANT RESPONDED TO THE INCIDENT. 

AFTER TALKING TO  (SPOUSE OF INJURED) SHE INFORMED ME THAT THE OPERATOR PERFORMED A SHARP LEFT TURN NEAR A NO WAKE BUOY AND BOTH OCCUPANTS OF THE PERSONAL WATERCRAFT (PWC) WENT OVERBOARD. Wife INFORMED ME THAT Operator's LIFE JACKET WAS NOT PROPERLY SECURED DUE TO HIS SIZE AND IT NOT BEING ABLE TO BUCKLE, BUT HE DID HAVE IT PARTIALLY ZIPPED UP. 

AS THE INDIVIDUALS WENT OVERBOARD THE CUT OFF SWITCH WAS ACTIVATED AND THE JETSKI BEGAN TO DRIFT AWAY. O1 ATTEMPTED TO SWIM TOWARDS THE PWC BUT HIS LIFE JACKET WAS COMING UP CREATING A DIFFICULTY FOR HIM TO SWIM. O1 BEGAN TO BLOW HIS WHISTLE ON HIS CUT OFF SWITCH AND WITNESS BEGAN TO SWIM TO his AID. Witness STATED THAT HE OBSERVED O1 HAVING DIFFICULTY TREADING WATER SO HE SWAM OUT TO HIM AND PULLED HIM TO SHORE.Witness STATED THAT HE OBSERVED O1 LIFE JACKET UNBUCKLED AND ONLY HALFWAY ZIPPED UP, AND WHEN HE GOT TO HIM HIS HEAD WAS UNDER WATER. WHEN O1 WAS BROUGHT TO SHORE; HE WAS STOOD UP BY witness TO KEEP HIS AIR WAY OPEN UNTIL HELPED ARRIVED AND O1 WAS OBSERVED VOMITING BY witness.

Wife ADMITTED THAT O1 HAD A SINGLE MIXED DRINK BEFORE OPERATING THE PWC. SHE INFORMED ME THAT THEY HAD EATEN AT STEAKHOUSE FOR LUNCH AS WELL. NO TESTS WERE ABLE TO BE PERFORMED DUE TO his STATE. 

AS EMS ARRIVED THEY PLACED O1 ON A STRETCHER AND I OBSERVED HIM GOING IN AND OUT OF CONSCIOUSNESS. HE WAS TRANSPORTED VIA EMS TO CONROE REGIONAL. 


AS OF 3/23/23 11:30 am, O1 IS STILL IN CRITICAL CONDITION AND IN THE ICU.
Update 4/14/23: O1 is home out of the hospital and is in good condition. Continues to have heart issues according to his wife.
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