ON SUNDAY JUNE 18TH, 2023, AT APPROXIMATELY 4:00 PM, I, INDIANA CONSERVATION OFFICER 1 WAS ON PATROL NEAR MORSE RESERVOIR IN HAMILTON COUNTY.  I WAS THEN APPROACHED BY AN INDIVIDUAL AT MORSE RESERVOIR MARINA, LATER IDENTIFIED AS V2 OWNER.  V2 OWNER ADVISED THAT HIS BOAT, A BLUE 2022 TAHOE RUNABOUT, HAD BEEN DAMAGED THE NIGHT PRIOR WHILE DOCKED AT HIS SLIP.  V2 OWNER ADVISED THERE WAS DAMAGE SUSTAINED TO THE LOWER UNIT OF HIS VESSEL.  UPON REVIEWING PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE DAMAGE SUSTAINED AND SPEAKING WITH THE MARINA STAFF, IT WAS MADE AWARE THAT V1 OPERATOR HAD STRUCK V2 OWNERS BOAT THE EVENING PRIOR ON JUNE 17TH.  V2 OWNER ADVISED THAT V1 OPERATOR LEFT HIS CONTACT AND INSURANCE INFORMATION WITH THE MORSE RESERVOIR MARINA STAFF THE FOLLOWING MORNING ON JUNE 18TH. 
DUE TO THE DAMAGE BEING ISOLATED TO THE LOWER UNIT OF HIS VESSEL, V2 OWNER ADVISED HE WAS GOING TO PROCURE A DAMAGE ESTIMATE PRIOR TO FILING A REPORT REGARDING THE INCIDENT.  ON MONDAY, JUNE 19TH, V2 OWNER PRODUCED A DAMAGE ESTIMATE FROM LAKEVIEW MARINA, WITH A TOTAL ESTIMATED DAMAGE VALUE OF $2972, ALONG WITH V1 OPERATOR'S CONTACT INFORMATION. 
ON TUESDAY, JUNE 20TH, I ASSESSED THE DAMAGE OF BOTH VESSELS AT MORSE RESERVOIR MARINA.  THERE WAS APPARENT DAMAGE TO THE LOWER UNIT OF V2 OWNER'S VESSEL PARKED ON HIS SLIP.  UPON VIEWING V1 OPERATOR'S VESSEL AT HIS SLIP, THERE WAS NO APPARENT DAMAGE.  THE DAMAGE TO V2 OWNER'S VESSEL WAS PHOTOGRAPHED, AND HE WAS PROVIDED WITH AN INDIANA BOAT ACCIDENT OPERATORS FORM. 
ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21ST, I SPOKE WITH V1 OPERATOR VIA TELEPHONE REGARDING THE INCIDENT.  V1 OPERATOR ADVISED HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO DOCK HIS VESSEL, A WHITE AND RED GODFREY MARINE RUNABOUT BOAT ON SATURDAY, JUNE 17TH, WHEN HE STRUCK V2 OWNER'S VESSEL.  V1 OPERATOR ADVISED THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED AROUND 8:15 PM TO THE BEST OF HIS KNOWLEDGE.  V1 OPERATOR ADVISED THAT HE AND HIS WIFE, WERE ON BOARD HIS VESSEL AT THE TIME OF THE INCIDENT.  V1 OPERATOR ADVISED HE REALIZED HE HAD MISSED HIS SLIP AT THE MARINA AND WAS TURNING AROUND WHEN HE STRUCK V2 OWNER'S DOCKED VESSEL ON SLIP, DAMAGING THE LOWER UNIT OF THE VESSEL.
V1 OPERATOR ADVISED THERE WAS NO DAMAGE SUSTAINED TO HIS VESSEL DURING THE INCIDENT.  V1 OPERATOR ADVISED HE LEFT HIS CONTACT AND INSURANCE INFORMATION WITH MORSE MARINA STAFF FOR V2 OWNER ON JUNE 18TH, 2023.  V1 OPERATOR WAS THEN PROVIDED AN INDIANA BOAT ACCIDENT OPERATORS FORM VIA EMAIL.  
THE DAMAGE TO V2 OWNER'S VESSEL WAS CONSISTENT TO THE STATEMENTS GIVEN BY V1 OPERATOR AND V2 OWNER.
Morse Reservoir
Noblesville                   