RedactedNarrative: On Friday March 29, 2019 at approximately 2050 hours I, Officer employed by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Division of Law Enforcement, responded to a delayed single vessel accident. I met with the owner/operator of the vessel at Roland Martins Marina and Resort in Clewiston Florida.
  
  Operator advised that he was navigating his vessel, a 1997 multicolored Bass Cat Bass Boat Florida Registration FL2596HU, near “Uncle Joe’s Fish Camp” when a large barge was heading opposite him in the Rim Channel of Lake Okeechobee. The barge was creating a large wake and he came off plane and gave way to the barge. When doing so his vessel was pushed over towards rocks by the wake. He stated when his vessel struck the rocks he was knocked out of his seat and the kill switch engaged disengaging the outboard.
    
  His vessel was grounded on the rocks and suffered damage to the bottom of the hull. Multiple one to one and half foot gouges into the fiberglass occurred. Also damage to the skeg and lower unit of the outboard.  Attached are photographs of the damage estimated to be around $2000USD. 
  
  He was able to operate the vessel safely back to the boat ramp however he stated that there was a lot of water in the bilge area once he put the vessel on its trailer. 
  
  No citations issued due to hazard being unmarked below the water line.
  