RedactedNarrative: During the early morning hours of 8/7/2022 between 0102 and 0800 hours, subject was operating his 2017 24’ Nautic Star center console vessel bearing an Alabama registration in an east - northeasterly direction in the waters of North Bay, located in Bay County, FL.  
  
  Operator was the only occupant and operator on board at the time of accident.  Operator’s vessel was operating on full plane and subsequently struck a concrete crossbeam foundation that was the base for a power line structure that held power lines that crossed the bay.  
  
  As the bow of V1 traveled underneath the concrete cross beam, the initial impact was mostly absorbed by V1’s center console and Operator who was standing behind it at the wheel.  This initial impact severely damaged the vessel as well as inflicted fatal blunt force injuries to Operator and ultimately ejected him overboard.  
  
  The vessel continued to travel underneath the crossbeam and eventually struck the inside of a second crossbeam which was a continuing part of the square foundation for the power line structure.  As daylight came, witnesses were heading out in a vessel and noticed V1 trapped within the square structure of crossbeams and went to investigate.  
  
  There, they found the badly damaged vessel still running and disconnected the battery to stop it.  They called 911 and subsequently FWC and USCG were dispatched and arrived.  The deceased body of Operator was found underwater a short distance away from the wreckage and was subsequently recovered and transported to the medical examiner’s office where his cause of death was blunt abdominal trauma with terminal submersion in water.; 
  
  The toxicology report found a BAC level of .133 in Operator's abdominal blood and .158 in the vitreous eye sample.  This was above the .08 level which determines legal intoxication.
  