VESSEL 1 AND VESSEL 2 HAD BEEN RENTED FROM GROGS WATERSPORTS FOR AN HOUR.  VESSEL 1 WAS FOLLOWING VESSEL 2 WHEN VESSEL 2 DECIDED TO SPIN OUT SEVERAL TIMES, APPARENTLY VESSEL 1 LOST SIGHT OF VESSEL 2 DUE TO A LARGE AMOUNT OF SPRAY BEING THROWN.  VESSEL 1 DID NOT KNOW WHICH WAY VESSEL 2 WAS HEADING AND WAS UNABLE TO STOP OR MANEUVER IN TIME TO PREVENT A COLLISION.  VESSEL 1 STRUCK VESSEL 2 ON THE STARBOARD SIDE ABOUT MIDWAY DOWN THE SIDE OF THE PWC CAUSING CRACKS IN THE FIBERGLASS AND A TEAR ON THE SEAT.  THE OPERATOR OF VESSEL 2 WAS STRUCK ON THE HEAD EITHER BY VESSEL 1 OR AS HE WAS THROWN OF THE PWC, IT IS NOT KNOWN WHAT ACTUALLY CAUSED HIS INJURIES.  I ARRIVED AND SPOKE WITH SEVERAL OF THE EMPLOYEES AT THE RENTAL AGENCY, THEY INFORMED ME THAT THE OPERATORS HAD JUST BEEN WARNED ABOUT APERATING TOO CLOSE TO ONE ANOTHER AND THAT THEY WOULD BE PULLED IN IF THEY WERE SPOKEN TO AGAIN.  IT WAS MINUTES AFTER THIS THAT THE PWC'S COLLIDED.  AS A RESULT THE OPERATOR OF VESSEL 2 WAS TAKEN BY AMBULANCE TO THE OUTER BANKS HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS TREATED FOR A CONCUSSION.  THE OPERATOR OF VESSEL 1 WAS CHARGED WITH OPERATING A PWC AT GREATER THAN NO WAKE SPEED WITHIN 100 FT. OF ANOTHER VESSEL.
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