RedactedNarrative: Operator launched his 19' bayliner trophy center console boat which was powered by a 120 hp outboard engine from the wrc morehead access area at approximately 9:00am on may 23, 2015. After launching the boat off of his trailer from the right ramp, right ramp as you look towards the water, he tied off on his starboard side to the center dock located between both ramps. His bow was pointed inland. Operator was the only occupant of the vessel and his father was standing on the center dock next to the starboard side of the vessel. Operator had just recently filled the vessel's gas tank full (approximately 55 gallons of fuel) at about 8:00am. 
  
  Operator attempted to start the engine but during the first series of cranks, it would not start. After waiting a minute, he tried cranking the engine again, and while cranking the engine, realized he did not have the clip attached to the kill switch meaning the kill switch was engaged. Before he could finish cranking the engine, the second time and before attaching the clip to the kill switch, an explosion occurred inside the hull under his feet where the fuel tank was situated. The explosion blew the center console up and off the hull and it settled inside toward the port side of the vessel. The explosion also blew the hatches off multiple compartments in the boat including the compartment under the center console and the hatch located just forward of the transom which allowed access to the fuel tank. There were flames inside of each of those compartments. Operator jumped out of the vessel onto the dock after explosion. His father then told him he needed to extinguish the flames so operator jumped back into the vessel, retrieved the fire extinguisher from the front of the vessel and extinguished the flames under the console and under the hatch to the fuel tank. 
  
  Damage to the vessel included the following: cap separated from the hull on the starboard side from stern to bow; hatch doors blown off of nearly every compartment; center console separated from hull, fire damage to center console and the wiring underneath it, fire damage to fuel tank and associated wires and hoses, cracks and abrasions to port side exterior of hull from another vessel attempting to quickly maneuver away from the burning vessel, and large cracks in the transom. 
  
  Operator was standing slightly port of the center of the vessel behind and to the side of the center console with the right side of his body facing towards the bow at the time of the explosion. The flames from the compartment under the center console caused mostly superficial burns to both of his legs with the worst of the burns being to his right leg. He also suffered singed eyebrows. Father had singed leg hairs from his close proximity the starboard side of the vessel where the cap blew off from the explosion.