ACCORDING TO OFFICIALS OF THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD, A WITNESS  REPORTED OBSERVING AN UNMANNED VESSEL OPERATING IN CIRCLES IN OREGON INLET, EAST OF THE HERBERT C. BONNER BRIDGE, AT APPROXIMATELY 1225 PM.  AT 12:42 PM, THAT SAME PERSON CONTACTED THE US COAST GUARD AND REPORTED FINDING THE VESSEL UNMANNED AND ADRIFT IN THE GREEN ISLAND SLOUGH AREA OF OREGON INLET, WEST  OF THE HERBERT C. BONNER BRIDGE, AND ANCHORED THE VESSEL WITH THE ANCHOR THAT WAS ON BOARD.  THE US COAST GUARD ARRIVED ON SCENE SHORTLY THERE AFTER AND FOUND THAT ENGINE WAS OFF, HOWEVER THE KEY WAS IN THE "ON" POSITION WITH THE THROTTLE SET AT "FULL THROTTLE," THE WINDSHIELD WAS BROKEN FROM THE CONSOLE, AND THE MOUNTS FOR A FORWARD COOLER-SEAT WERE BROKEN.  COAST GUARDSMEN LOCATED A CELL PHONE AND WALLET IN THE CENTER CONSOLE OF THE VESSEL .  USING THE CELL PHONE, THEY WERE ABLE TO CONTACT subject 1'S WIFE AND ASCERTAIN THAT HE HAD LEFT TO GO FISHING, ALONE, EARLIER IN THE DAY.  A COAST GUARD HELICOPTER ARRIVED ON SCENE AND LOCATED THE BODY OF subject 1 AT 1400 HRS, SEVERAL HUNDRED YARDS WEST OF HIS VESSEL, IN SHALLOW WATER, NEAR GREEN ISLAND SLOUGH.  A COAST GUARD RESCUE BOAT TRANSPORTED subject 1'S BODY TO COAST GUARD STATION OREGON INLET WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD. subject 1 HAD SEVERAL LACERATIONS, APPARENTLY FROM THE PROPELLER, ON HIS LEFT ANKLE, LEFT ELBOW, AND RIB CAGE ON HIS LEFT SIDE, HOWEVER THESE DID NOT APPEAR TO BE LIFE-THREATENING.  ALTHOUGH THERE WERE SEVERAL TYPE III PFD'S ON BOARD, subject 1 WAS NOT WEARING A PFD WHEN FOUND.  THERE WAS ONE EMPTY BEER CAN IN A BAG IN THE BOW OF THE VESSEL, AND SEVERAL MORE UNOPENED BEERS IN COOLER NEAR THE STERN OF THE VESSEL.  FROM THE WITNESS REPORTS AND PHYSICAL EVIDENCE, IT APPEARS THAT subject 1 FELL OVERBOARD WHILE HIS VESSEL WAS IN MOTION EAST OF THE BONNER BRIDGE AND WAS STRUCK BY THE PROPELLER.  HE AND HIS BOAT THEN DRIFTED WEST IN OREGON INLET ON THE INCOMING TIDE, BEFORE COMING TO REST IN SHALLOW WATER NEAR THE GREEN ISLAND SLOUGH.  NO CHARGES WERE FILED AS A RESULT OF THE ACCIDENT.
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