On August 5, 2009 at approximately 1800 hrs I was informed by the Starke County Sheriff's Department of a boat accident that occurred on Bass Lake.  I shortly arrived at the residence off of Gull Point.  At this residence I noticed a stand up jet-ski sitting on top of the rocks off of the lake.  I found the operator  standing by talking to the owner of the property.  I was advised by the operator that he fell off of the watercraft across the lake, near the red channel buoy, and instead of the watercraft self circling like it was created to do, the throttle stayed open and the machine traveled alone Eastbound until it came in contact with the shoreline which was made up of large rocks.  Operator 1's friend and witness, Witness 1, traveled to the grounded machine and turned it off.  He then picked up Operator 1 and traveled back to the accident location.  

	Pictures were taken of the watercraft, which suffered bow and hull damage.  The watercraft was basically totaled and unrepairable.  They walked the machine to the nearest County easement to trailer it out.  There were no injuries in the accident or other property damage besides the watercraft.
Knox                          