RedactedNarrative: On May 4, 2014 at approximately 6:37 pm FWC Dispatch received a complaint reference a serious boat accident in the vicinity of Mashta Flats, Key Biscayne, FL. I immediately contacted dispatch and advised that I was en route to the area by land. According to dispatch a male boater had been seriously cut by the propellers of a 42 feet Hydra Sport grounded in the area. The victim was attempting to push the vessel off of the sandbar while the owner was operating its engines. The victim was standing on the starboard aft section of the vessel and after losing his footing while attempting to push the vessel forward was caught underneath the hull and fatally injured with the vessel's propellers. 
  It was later discovered that Operator and his passengers departed from the Shake-A-Leg pier earlier in day towards Nixon Beach/Mashta Flats in order to spend the day at the sandbar. 
  After arriving at No Name Harbor at approximately 7:33 pm I was contacted by LT (see attached report) who provided me with the necessary information. The victim, later identified as Victim was seriously injured, transported to Ryder Trauma Medical Center and pronounced dead at 7:12 pm by Dr. (see attached Preliminary Police Death Investigation Report). The victim was boating in the area with four other individuals. The victim was on board vessel FL0703LE and was the only one from this boat that provided assistance to the grounded vessel (Documentation DO 1244463). 
  LT and I attempted to obtain a post rights advice statement from the operator of the vessel, but he refused to provide a statement as well as a blood sample (interview attached). 
  
  During the investigation the vessel was inspected and photographed (see attached photograph log/report from Investigator, and two LTs). Ofc also provided photographs of the scene which are attached to this report. During the inspection of the vessel in question several bottles of liquor, including Voli Vodka were found onboard and were also inventoried and photographed (photos attached). Additionally, small pieces of US currency bills were recovered from the vessel and subsequently transported to the Miami-Dade County Crime Laboratory. The bills tested positive for cocaine and the official report is attached. 
  
  Several witnesses were interviewed at the FWC Miami Office.