RedactedNarrative: On July 20, 2015, at approximately 1650 hours, I, Officer of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission responded to a vessel fire. The vessel was beached on a sandbar, south of the Stuart Causeway on the west side of the Inter Coastal Waterways (ICW) and channel marker 230. 
  
  When I arrived on scene, Martin County Marine and Fire Units, along with the United States Coast Guard were fighting to extinguish the fire that engulfed the vessel. At this time vessel was beached on a sand bar just West of the ICW and South of the Stuart Causeway and approximately channel marker 230. The new owner and operator of the vessel was transported by Martin County Sheriffs Office (MCSO) to the Stuart causeway. When the fire was extinguished I returned to the Stuart causeway to interview Operator1 who informed me that he obtained no injuries, and he refused medical assistances. Operator1 proceed to tell me that he was driving the vessel south on the ICW, when he noticed diesel fuel in the water behind his vessel. Operator1 then opened the motor hatch to find a small fire in the motor. He proceeded by shutting off the motors and attempted to extinguish the fire with the vessels fire extinguisher. Once Operator1 realized the fire was spreading and he was unable to stop the flames, he was forced to jump off the vessel into the ICW. A passing vessel operator helped retrieve him from the water and waited for the MCSO to arrive on sense. MCSO then transported him to the Stuart Causeway. 
  
  The vessel was recently purchased by Operator1, and the documentation for the vessel were aboard during the fire. The following day, I went to Operator1's residence and reviewed pictures of the vessel prior to the burn. The vessel's name is Splinter, hailing port is Stuart FL. With this information I was able to run the vessel name and the hailing port, but results showed no records found. Days later I returned to the vessel and was able to read the registration numbers of the vessel (FL7840AB). The registration numbers came back to 1965 40' Hatteras and was last registered 6-30-14.