A KIRO 7 Eyewitness News crew doing a boating-under-the-influence story captured the rescue on camera as Mercer Island Patrol 11 raced to the scene and tossed the man a line.

Reporter Stacy Sakamoto said other boats were pulling people out of the water, but as the patrol boat arrived, there was one man wearing a life preserver, treading water.

UNCUT: Man Rescued From Overturned Boat

Officers quickly got him aboard.

"So we were just going and the nose took a wave just dove in. just took on water and the compartments opened up and took on more," said Daniel Glenn, a relative of the man who was rescued.

Other passengers appeared safe, but shaken, in nearby boats. A vessel salvage boat rescued some of them.

"We just saw them waving at us and said, 'Oh my God, the bow is under water. So we turned around and quite the help," said Jessica Edwards, who was in a private boat that came to help.

Mercer Island Police said person operating the boat that overturned did nothing wrong. Bigger boats created waves that came over the bow of the 18-footer.

People on the boat said they had about two minutes to get their life preservers on.