RedactedNarrative: On May 27, 2022, at approximately 1500 hours, a single recreational vessel was traveling North approximately .75 miles West of Keewaydin Island. The vessel was a 2020 34 foot Nortec open motorboat with 3 400hp Mercury Outboard motors. The vessel was documented as DO1302353. 
  
  The vessel was traveling near idle speeds with a SSW wind around 15 knots and seas 2-3 feet. The vessel was in a following sea.
  
  The day was clear, with no rain, fog, or haze. There outside temperature was 88 degrees and the water was 87 degrees.
  
  The current operator of the vessel left the helm to tend to a cleat that was in the "up" position on the starboard bow and Operator took the helm and maintained steerage and headway to the North between 0 and 10 mph.
  
  Subject1 went to the starboard bow of the vessel to compress the cleat and knelt down on a forward seating area. While doing so, a large wave came from behind the vessel and drove the bow of the vessel up and then quickly down which launched Subject1 into the air. He subsequently landed on his left hip on the deck of the vessel.
  
  Operator notified first responders and EMS. After a thorough exam and series of scans, the hospital found that Subject1 fractured his pelvis and sacrum and broke the transverse processes off his L5 vertebrae. 
  
  The cause of the accident was due to weather.  His injuries included 2-3 fractures of his pelvis, broken transverse processes on either side of the L5 vertebrae and a fractures sacrum.
  