AT OR AROUND 6:00PM ON SEPTEMBER 30, 2011, VESSEL ONE WAS OPERATING IN BOGUE SOUND JUST EAST OF THE ATLANTIC BEACH BRIDGE.  VESSEL ONE WAS HEADING EAST WHEN A LARGER GRADY WHITE BOAT HEADING WEST CAME CLOSe TO HIM.  IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE TWO BOATS PASSED, VESSEL ONE STRUCK THE NUMBER 2 DAY MARKER HEAD ON.  AFTER THE COLLISION, VESSEL ONE BEGAN TO DRIFT AND operator HAD TO RECONNECT THE BATTERY.  ONCE operator WAS ABLE TO GET VESSEL ONE STARTED, HE DROVE THEM TO THE SHORE FOR MEDICAL ATTENTION.  APPROXIMATELY ONE HOUR AFTER THE ACCIDENT operator SUBMITTED TO AN ALCO-SENSOR WHERE HE REGISTERED A 0.03.
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