RedactedNarrative: ON 6/7/2021 AT APPROXIMATELY 3:15PM, OPERATOR WAS OPERATING A 27' OCEANMASTER OUT OF TAYLOR'S CREEK IN CARTERET COUNTY. ON BOARD ALONG WITH OPERATOR WAS PASSENGER 1, PASSENGER 6, PASSENGER 2, PASSENGER 4, PASSENGER 5, PASSENGER 3, PASSENGER 7, PASSENGER 8, AND PASSENGER 9. THEY WERE ALL OUT JOYRIDING AND HEADED TOWARDS HARKERS ISLAND. BEFORE HEADING TO HARKERS ISLAND, OPERATOR PICKED UP PASSENGER 9 AND PASSENGER 2 FROM FINZ GRILL/BAR LOCATED IN BEAUFORT. AS OPERATOR WAS HEADED OUT TOWARDS THE INLET FROM TAYLOR'S CREEK, HE SAW DOLPHINS BREACH IN FRONT OF THE VESSEL. IN AN ATTEMPT TO NOT STRIKE THE DOLPHINS, OPERATOR THREW THE THROTTLE ALL THE WAY DOWN TO SLOW DOWN AND TRIMMED UP THE MOTOR. AT THIS POINT, OPERATOR SAID HE WAS LOOKING BACK TOWARDS THE STERN OF THE BOAT AND WAS NO LONGER LOOKING OUT IN FRONT OF THE VESSEL. OPERATOR STATED HE WAS TRYING TO ENSURE HE HAD NOT HIT A DOLPHIN. WHEN OPERATOR TURNED BACK AROUND TO SEE WHERE THE VESSEL WAS, HE STATED HE SAW AN ARM POINTING AWAY FROM THE DIRECTION THEY WERE HEADED AND BEFORE HE COULD REACT, THE VESSEL RAN AGROUND ON THE SHOAL. WHEN THE VESSEL RAN AGROUND, 2 INDIVIDUALS WERE EJECTED. THE 2 INDIVIDUALS THAT WERE EJECTED WERE CRITICALLY INJURED AND TAKEN TO CARTERET GENERAL HEALTH CARE FOR TREATMENT. THE VESSEL WAS TOWED TO A SLIP AT HOMER SMITH DOCKS AND MARINA AND THE UNINJURED PASSENGERS WERE TRANSPORTED TO THE NC WILDLIFE BOAT RAMP OFF OF LENNOXVILLE RD IN BEAUFORT BY MARINE PATROL. CONTRIBUTING FACTORS TO THIS BOATING INCIDENT WERE AN IMPROPER LOOKOUT AND OPERATOR INATTENTION.
  
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  THE INJURED PARTIES WERE INJURED DUE TO IMPACT WITH FIXED OBJECT.  THIS INFORMATION IS STATED IN THE INJURED REPORTS FOR EACH VICTIM.