RedactedNarrative: V1 was pulling anchor. As the anchor was pulled and the vessel started to drift backwards, a person put the vessel in gear while a swimmer was trying to get on the vessel from the back. The swimmer was struck with the prop on the heel of his foot. He was taken to the hospital for stitches. 
  
  the owner and captain of the vessel, what had happened and he stated that they were getting ready to leave the cove and go to another spot. The swimmer, and injured person, got the anchor and handed it to the captain at the front of the vessel. Due to the current, the vessel was drifting backwards towards other boats. As the swimmer went around the side of the vessel to get into the rear of the boat, a person near the throttle, put the vessel in gear without checking where the swimmer was. The vessel was quickly taken out of gear. The bottom of the swimmers heel had been hit with the prop causing a small cut near the swimmers toes, and a large, approximately 4 inch cut, on the heel of his left foot.
  
  The swimmer was quickly loaded on to the vessel and taken into the Coast Guard Station Fort Pierce.
  
  I checked on the swimmer that evening and he stated that he had got stitches in the bottom of his foot, he stayed the night in the hospital.  
   
  