RedactedNarrative: On August 11, 2018 at approximately 4:55pm, I NC Wildlife Enforcement Officer was contacted by another Wildlife Enforcement Officer reference a boating incident involving a personal watercraft and minor injuries to a passenger at Wrightsville Beach north of the Wrightsville Beach Wildlife Access Area on the ICW.   
  
  Wildlife Enforcement Officer s and I Immediately responded to the call by boat.  Officer and I arrived at the Wrightsville Beach A.A. dock at approximately 5:35pm where me met Wrightsville Beach Police Sergeant.  Sgt. informed us that the operator of Vessel 1 was in the parking lot with another W.B.P.D officer and that he had been consuming alcohol.  
  
  I spoke with Operator1 briefly about the accident, had him perform standardized field sobriety tests, and placed him under arrest for operating while impaired.  Operator1 had a BAC of .17 according his test results from the Intoximeter EC/IR II.  
  
  According to Operator1, at approximately 3:30pm he was operating vessel 1 and was traveling north on the ICW just south of Mason's Inlet at approximately 40 mph on the east side of the channel.  One person was onboard Vessel 1 riding passenger behind Operator1.  
  
  According to Operator1, just before the accident, two unknown approximately 20-26' fiberglass center console type motor boats (Vessel 2 and Vessel 3) were heading south towards him on plane in the middle of ICW following very closely to each other.  Vessel 2 positioned slightly west of the middle of the channel was the first to pass Vessel 1.  Vessel 3 positioned in the middle of the channel heading south towards Vessel 1 passed within several yards of Vessel 1.  
  
  Vessel 1 turned slightly to the west to avoid the approaching Vessel 3 but stayed in the channel to avoid the marsh.  Vessel 1 then jumped over what he described as a large wake from the combined wakes of Vessels 2 and 3.  After Vessel 1 jumped the large wake, Operator1 and V1 occupant were ejected from Vessel 1 landing in the ICW.  
  
  Vessel I's engine shut off and the PWC drifted over into the edge of the marsh on the east side of the channel.  According to V1 occupant an unknown individual in a kayak (Vessel 4) paddling by after the incident, turned her upright while she was floating face down in the water.  Operator1 swam over to Vessel 1 and re-boarded.  He then motored over to V1 occupant, picked her up and transported her over to Palm tree island where her friends were.  V1 occupant was then transported over to the WB Wildlife access area by another vessel where she met the EMS and was later admitted to New Hanover Regional hospital.  
  
  Operator1 suffered a laceration under his chin from possibly striking the handlebars of Vessel I and a contusion to the back of his head from V1 occupant head impacting him from the rear.  V1 occupant suffered a broken jaw, a contusion on her right thigh, 2 teeth knocked out, and 6 chipped teeth from her head possibly impacting the rear of Operator1's head and later impacting Vessel 1.  There was no reported damage to Vessel 1.
  
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