VESSEL 1 WAS UNDER NORMAL SAIL ON SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2010, AT APPROXIMATELY 16:00 HRS.  AS THE VESSEL TRAVELED FROM LOWER BROAD CREEK INTO THE ICW, IT BECAN TO CHANGE DIRECTIONS.  AS THE VESSEL WAS CHANGING DIRECTION, THE OPERATOR NOTICED THE JIB LINE WAS TANGLED.  HE WALKED TO THE FOREDECK TO UNTANGLE THE LINE.  THE OPERATOR'S WIFE TOOK OVER OPERATION OF THE VESSEL AS THE OPERATOR BEGAN TO CORRECT THE DESCRIBED SITUATION.  AS THE OPERATOR WAS WALKING BACK TO THE COCKPIT, HE WAS STRUCK IN THE FOREHEAD BY THE MAST BOOM.  THE SUDDEN SHIFT OF THE MAST BOOM WAS DUE TO A SUDDEN AND UNEXPECTED GUST OF WIND.  THE MAST BOOM WAS ABLE TO SWING FREELY DUE TO IT NOT BEING SECURED.  OPERATOR, WAS KNOCKED OVERBOARD FROM THE IMPACT.  AT THIS TIME, A PASSENGER, MANEUVERED THE VESSEL TO ALLOW HIM TO ATTEMPT TO RESCUE operator.  AT THIS TIME HE OBSERVED operator FLOATING FACE DOWN IN THE WATER.  operator APPEARECD TO BE ONCONSCIOUS.  passenger JUMPED OVERBOARD IN ORDER TO REACH operator.  WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF TWO OTHER PASSENGERS ON THE VESSEL, operator WAS WINCHED UP AND INTO THE BOAT.  SOON AFTER operator BEING RETURNED TO THE BOAT, A MAYDAY CALL WAS PLACED ON THE BOAT'S MARINE RADIO.  INDIVIDUALS ON A NEARBY VESSEL HEARD THE CALL AND RESPONDED.  operator AND ALL OTHER PASSENGERS WERE LOADED INTO THE ASSISTING VESSEL.  CPR WAS ADMINISTERED TO operator ALL THE WAY TO RIVER DUNES, A NEARBY MARINA.  IT WAS THERE AT THE MARINA THAT PAMLICO RESCUE SQUAD TOOK OVER AND TRANSPORTED operator TO CRAVEN REGIONAL HOSPITAL. NO PFDS WERE USED AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT.  NO ALCOL OR DRUGS WERE DETECTED.

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1/5/11
BASED ON NARRATIVE AND MEDICAL EXAMINER'S REPORT, ACCIDENT REPORT WAS UPDATED TO SHOW THAT NO PFDS WERE USED IN THIS ACCIDENT.
MEDICAL EXAMINER'S REPORT SAYS NOTHING ABOUT DECEASED BEING RESCUED WEARING A PFD
REPORT IS NOW CORRECT AS ENTERED AND SUBMITTED
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