RedactedNarrative: Notified of boating accident in the vicinity of oyster bay and icw. Upon arrival vessel was tied to the dock. 
  
  Gulf shores pd & fire & rescue were already on the scene. There was one deceased victim was strapped to a backboard that was on the dock and there was a deceased victim laying in the front floor area of the vessel. They were advised that another passenger onboard the vessel was flown to pensacola fl for treatment. 
  
  Other passengers onboard vessel were able to confirm that there were 7 persons total on the vessel. According to other on board vessel they had been at the gumbo key concert all day and launched from the boat ramp at weeks bay. The operator of the vessel had struck a pier which is the next pier to the east of where the boat was upon the marine patrol troopers arrival on the scene. 
  
  Mp troopers took pictures of scene and the deceased victims. Upon investigation the gps chartplotter was positioned facing upwards towards the sky, turned on with a very bright screen. The operator's post was bent backwards.
  
   The emergency cut-off switch was hanging down on the dock with a loop in the end (appeared it had not been worn at time of the accident.) The engine control box (throttle) appeared to be in the reverse position. The radio was on the on position but was turned down. The position of the gps chartplotter damage (bent back) to the operator's sect post as well as the head injuries to the operator  lead to the conclusion that the operator was standing up operating when it struck the pier.
  
   Damage to the vessel included a crushed windshield on the starboard side , busted glass in the windshield on the port side, hull damage to the forward and mid gunwale, broken antenna on the starboard side, bent all around white stern light, and a bimini top that was torn completely off and still hanging in the pier that was struck. 
  
  There was considerable damage to the pier that was struck. The major damage as well as the deceased and injured passengers were all on the starboard side. It appeared that the starboard side was higher in the water than the port side when it was struck and went under the pier. The water depth around the pier was shallow less than 2 ft. Vessel was towed to impound yard in the early morning hours of 6/19/2016. Personal items were secured and returned to the individuals in the accident and family members of the deceased. 
  
  Large quantities of alcoholic beverage cans were in a trash bag behind the operators seat as well as a plastic cup with a white liquid marked malibu, bushwacker, kahlulaon the cup in the cup holder of operators station. A green powder substance in a foil bag with 25g and wvmd was found inside of a plastic ray ban sun glass case inside a beach bag. A plastic pill container with possible medication was also found in a storage compartment of the vessel. No other items were recovered. Father of one of the victims inquired about a handgun that his son usually carried onboard but mp troopers did not find a handgun. The owner of the pier the vessel damaged was not home when the accident occured. He was interviewed and he said there had been a navigation sign ( a red 100marker that flashes every 4 seconds at night) that was supposed to be there across from the green 99 marker which is south of pier that was struck. It was still in place. Photographs were taking showing the red 100 marker was missing. On 7-5-16 photographs were taken showing the marker had been replaced.  Green powder substance and pills were turned over to mobile forensics lab but they released it back without testing to mp troopers because there was no suspect.