On 1/12/13 V1 was heading Northwest in Grand Lagoon.  The weather was clear with a slight breeze.  The operator of V1 was taking his vessel to his house to put it on the lift.  While he was traveling up Grand Lagoon his vessel struck a pipe the was underwater.  The operator thinks he struck the dredged pipe that is in Grand Lagoon.  When the vessel struck the pipe the operator was ejected from the vessel and he landed in the water.  The vessel kept moving and grounded itself on the shoreline.   The vessel received cracks on the starboard side and the skag was broken off the engine.  The operator received laceration to both leg while he was trying to retrieved his vessel from the shore.  He was cut up by the oyster bed near his vessel. ; Operator received lacerations on both legs after being ejected.  He received the lacerations from the oysters that were in the mud.  He refused treatment at first then took himself to the ER room and received 16 sutures to the lacerations.
PANAMA CITY BEACH