RedactedNarrative: ON 07 FEBUARY 2021, AT APPROXIMATELY 22:00PM, OPERATOR 1 WAS TRAVELING SOUTH ON THE INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY NEAR CHANNEL MARKER BOUY 99A. OPERATOR 1 RAN AGROUND TRYING TO AVIOD HITTING MARKER BOUY 99A(GREEN) WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO MARK THE WEST SIDE OF THE INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY CHANNEL. AS HE APPROACHED THE MARKER BOUY, HE PUT HIS BOAT IN REVERSE AND STEERED TO THE LEFT IN AN ATTEMPT TO AVIOD HITTING IT BUT ENDED UP RUNNING AGROUND. HE STATED THE MARKER BOUY WAS LAYING ON ITS SIDE AND WAS VERY DIFFICULT TO SEE AT NIGHT.
  OPERATOR 1 STATED AFTER HITTING THE SANDBAR HE AND HIS PASSENGER WERE THROWN AROUND IN THE BOAT AND BOTH SUSTAINED FACE AND MOUTH INJURIES.
  INVESTIGATION REVEALED A LARGE SANDBAR HAD FORMED UP AROUND MARKER BOUY 99A, AND THE WATER WAS EXTREMELY SHALLOW, ESPECIALLY AROUND LOW TIDE. DUE TO THE WATER BEING SO SHALLOW UNDER THE MARKER BOUY, THE STRONG CURRENT PUSHING AGAINST IT, AND MOST OF THE REFLECTIVE TAPE ON THE BOUY BEING GONE, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY DIFFICULT TO SEE THE MARKER BOUY AT NIGHT. THE FOLLOWING WEEK THERE WERE TWO HAZARD BOUYS PUT OUT, ONE ON THE NORTH SIDE AND ONE ON THE SOUTH OF THE SANDBAR AND ALSO A NEW CHANNEL MARKER BOUY.
  