RedactedNarrative: Operator #1 stated: "At Approximately 4:15 pm on September 16, 2020 I was heading north from Stone Harbor through Cresse Thorofare and directly straight to the channel which is Gull island Thorofare. As exiting Cresse Thorofare into the Gull Island Thorofare inner coastal channel I struck an unmarked underwater dredging pipe. 
  
  Which ripped a significant hole in the bottom of my 2020 Yamaha Fxsvho Waverunner. Luckily I had other friends not too far behind me almost strike the same pipe but a worker on the dredging rig blew an air horn and then followed by saying the guy with the blue Waverunner is going to sink. We towed the sinking waverunner to the closest shore (Avalon Manor Bridge) then Tied it up and went to retrieve the waverunner with a truck and trailer as soon as we returned to Ocean City." 
  
  Investigation revealed: PWC #1 was traveling north in Cresse Thorofare entering Gull Island Thorofare, Middle Township, Cape May County. 
  
  Operator #1 failed to yield to audible warnings of the horn that was being sounded, operations personnel that were yelling and waving their hands and numerous warning signs that were posted throughout the area. Operator #1 struck same, causing major damage to the hull of PWC #1. 
  
  Operator #1 then operated PWC #1 to the Rt. 601 Bridge, were he removed PWC #1 from the water. Operator #1 reported no injuries. Operator #1 advised that he believed that there was $16,000.00 in damage to the PWC. 
  
  09/25/2020 (Friday) 
  On this date, I returned to the area of the crash to further observe warning signs in the area of dredging operation. I observed four (4) "Danger Pipeline" clearly marked in the area of the dredge pipes. The GPS coordinates for the "Danger Pipeline" markers are as followed: one (1) 39.04.360 /-74.46.191, two (2) 39.04.440 /-74.46.167, three (3) 39.04.486 / -74.46.173, four (4) 39.04.506 / -74.46.151. There was also "No Wake" signs on the dredging rig itself. Furthermore, the dredge pipe itself was being held by multiple bright orange polyform buoys.
  