RedactedNarrative: ON 05/27/2016 AT 5:38 PM, OFFICER1 FROM THE USCG CALLED ME TO REPORT A BOATING ACCIDENT THAT HAD OCCURRED.  HE ADVISED THAT 2 YOUNG FEMALES WERE OCCUPYING A VESSEL THAT COLLIDED WITH A DAY MARKER IN MONEY ISLAND BAY.  HE ADVISED THE 2 OCCUPANTS OF THE VESSEL WERE INJURED AND HAD BEEN TAKEN TO GET MEDICAL TREATMENT.  I HAD CHECKED OFF DUTY AT AROUND 5:30 PM BUT SIGNED BACK ON AFTER SPEAKING WITH OFFICER1.  I PATROLLED TO ANCHORAGE MARINA IN ATLANTIC BEACH TO INVESTIGATE THE INCIDENT.  UPON ARRIVING AT APPROXIMATELY 6:40 PM, I OBSERVED VESSEL NC XXXX XX PULLED INTO A BOAT SLIP.  VESSEL NC XXXX XX WILL BE REFERRED TO AS VESSEL 1 FOR PURPOSES OF THIS REPORT.  I OBSERVED A LARGE AREA IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BOW (FRONT) OF VESSEL 1 THAT WAS DAMAGED.  I OBSERVED WOOD AND FIBERGLASS PARTICLES ON THE BOW AND INSIDE OF VESSEL 1.  I OBSERVED THE RUBRAIL WAS TORN OFF ON THE BOW.  I ALSO OBSERVED BLOOD INSIDE OF THE VESSEL WHICH I PHOTOGRAPHED ALONG WITH THE DAMAGE TO VESSEL 1.  I SPOKE WITH OFFICER1 FURTHER AT THE SCENE.  I ALSO SPOKE WITH THE MANAGER AT ANCHORAGE MARINA.  HE ADVISED THAT A MAN (WITNESS1) PICKED UP ONE OF THE GIRLS INVOLVED IN THE COLLISION AND BROUGHT HER TO ANCHORAGE MARINA.  I ALSO SPOKE WITH GOOD SAMARITAN1 WHO WAS A PASSENGER ON A VESSEL OPERATED BY GOOD SAMARITAN2.  GOOD SAMARITAN1 REPORTED THAT HE AND GOOD SAMARITAN2 PICKED UP THE OPERATOR OF VESSEL 1 AFTER THE COLLISION OCCURRED AND TRANSPORTED HER TO ANCHORAGE MARINA.  I PATROLLED TO FAST MED URGENT CARE IN MOREHEAD CITY WHERE I MADE CONTACT WITH THE TWO OCCUPANTS OF VESSEL 1.  I IDENTIFIED THE 2 OCCUPANTS AS INJURED1 AND INJURED2.  THE TWO HAD JUST FINISHED GETTING TREATED FOR HER INJURIES.  INJURED1 RECEIVED 12 STITCHES TO 2 LACERATIONS ON HER RIGHT KNEE.  INJURED1 REPORTED SHE WAS THE OPERATOR OF VESSEL 1 AND THAT SHE WAS 15 YEARS OLD.  SHE REPORTED SHE HAD NOT HAD A BOATING SAFETY COURSE.  I ALSO SPOKE WITH INJURED2.  INJURED2, WHO WAS FRIENDS WITH INJURED1, REPORTED SHE WAS THE PASSENGER ON VESSEL 1 AND WAS STANDING IN FRONT OF THE CENTER CONSOLE WHEN THE COLLISION OCCURRED.  INJURED1 REPORTED SHE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF TURNING VESSEL 1 TO THE RIGHT WHEN 2 LARGE BOATS PASSED CREATING LARGE WAKES.  SHE REPORTED THE WAKES CAUSED HER TO BE SPRAYED WITH WATER, AT WHICH POINT INJURED1 AND INJURED2 BEGAN LAUGHING.  INJURED1 REPORTED BECAUSE THEY WERE LAUGHING, THEY WERE DISTRACTED AND VESSEL 1 COLLIDED WITH A DAY MARKER.  INJURED2 WAS THROWN OVERBOARD OFF OF THE STARBOARD (RIGHT) SIDE OF THE BOW WHILE INJURED1 COLLIDED WITH THE CENTER CONSOLE IN FRONT OF HER.  THIS WAS THE CAUSE OF THE LACERATIONS ON INJURED1'S RIGHT KNEE.  INJURED2 REPORTED HER INJURIES WERE FROM BEING THROWN OFF OF VESSEL 1.  I LEFT THE URGENT CARE AT 7:46 PM ON 06/03/2016 AT 9:46 AM.  I SPOKE WITH WITNESS1 ABOUT THE INCIDENT.  HE REPORTED THAT HE WAS OPERATING HIS VESSEL APPROXIMATELY 200 YARDS BEHIND VESSEL 1.  HE REPORTED THAT HE THOUGHT HE SAW A SPLASH AND SOMETHING SEEMED UNUSUAL ABOUT VESSEL 1.  HE REPORTED AS HE GOT CLOSER TO VESSEL 1, HE OBSERVED INJURED2 SWIMMING IN THE WATER NEAR THE STERN OF THE BOAT.  HE REPORTED SHE WAS COMPLAINING ABOUT PAIN IN HER LEG.  HE REPORTED HE HELPED INJURED2 GET IN HIS BOAT AND TRANSPORTED HER TO ANCHORAGE MARINA.  HE REPORTED THERE WERE 2 OTHER VESSELS THAT CAME TO HELP.  1 VESSEL PICKED UP THE OPERATOR AND THE OTHER VESSEL TOWED IN VESSEL 1 TO ANCHORAGE MARINA.  NOTHING FURTHER AT THIS TIME.
  
  
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