RedactedNarrative: On May 5th, 2018 at approximately 2200 hours I responded to a call from my dispatch center about a boating accident near World Wide Sportsman in Monroe County, Florida.  I was with an Investigator and an Officer, all three in agency issued uniforms and in a marked agency patrol vessel.  We arrived on scene, at approximately 2230 hours and dropped the Officer to collect witness statements from all parties involved.  The Investigator and I then inspected the vessel, where it made contact with the mangroves on the Southern end of Little Basin.  SeaTow was already on scene and had attached a line to the vessel, but had not attempted to pull the vessel from the mangroves.  There was one male on board the vessel who claimed to be the owner of the vessel.  
  
  As SeaTow pulled the vessel from the mangroves, I accompanied  aboard his vessel to document the damage, as well as, ask him what happened.  According to the owner, his son was operating the vessel with the owner sitting beside him assisting in operating the vessel.  As the vessel was traveling West out of Little Basin, another smaller fishing vessel, with no navigation lights, cut the owner's vessel off causing them to veer to the right and collide into the mangroves.
  