After having been drinking at a bar, Operator/deceased asked the 3 women he was with to go for a boatride.  Eventually they agreed.  During the ride, just after Operator had told them he would speed up, immediately they crashed into a unlit pier's steel pillars, causing the windshield to shatter and glass was sprayed everywhere.  Operator was ejected from the boat.  One of the passengers turned off the engine, and all three were picked up by an (unknown) pontoon boat.  When they got to shore the Monroe County Sheriff Deputies were there to take over.   Two passengers were transported to the hospital, and one was treated for a headwound (laceration).  The other passenger had glass in her legs.  Operator was found later close to the scene at the lake's bottom and brought to shore and hospital where a doctor declared Operator deceased. The boat was heavily damaged.  Deputy operated the damaged boat back o the River front Marina where it was secured to the dock and turned over for closer inspecton.  As it turned out, the Operator, when he was ejected from the boat, had hit the pier's two support beams extending into the water, as human hair and flsh and blood were found on the bottom portion of the beam.  Life jackets were initially not found on the boat, but were later discovered  under the front passenger seat.  However, no one wore a PFD at the time of the crash.
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