OPERATOR REPORTED BEING IN DISTRESS TO 911. CALLER STATED SHE WAS GROUNDED IN CONSERVATION BAY. RESPONDED TO THE AREA AND LOCATED THE VESSEL LOCATED IN LESS THAN A FOOT OF WATER ON THE NORTH EAST CORNER OF CONSERVATION BAY.

 THE AREA IS FULL OF SUBMERGED LOGS AND OBSTRUCTIONS. THE BOAT WAS LISTING BUT AT THE TIME IT WAS ASSUMED THE VESSEL HAD RUN AGROUND. TWO OCCUPANTS WERE WEARING LIFE JACKETS AND WERE REMOVED BY TICHIGAN FIRE. I PULLED THE BOAT TO DEEPER WATER WHERE IT WAS REALIZED THE REAR OF THE PORT PONTOON TORE OPEN AND IT WAS LISTING DUE TO WAKING ON WATER. 

I WAS ABLE TO TOW THE BOAT TO THE DOCK WHERE IT WAS TRAILERED. THE BOAT HOUSE DRILLED HOLES IN THE PONTOON TO LET THE WATER OUT TO GET IT ONTO THE TRAILER. OPERATOR STATED SHE HAD NO IDEA IT WAS SO SHALLOW AND WAS UNFAMILIAR WITH THE AREA.
Fox River
Waterford                     