RedactedNarrative: On 06/15/2018 at 18:10, a boating accident was reported to Putnam County. The witness estimated that the incident occurred approximately thirty minutes before at approximately 17:40.  Putnam County Sheriff’s Deputy who said he could smell the odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from Operator.  Deputy said that when he questioned Operator as to if he had any alcoholic drinks since the incident and he said no, but did admit to drinking before the incident.
  	I began to interview Operator as to what had happened. I asked if he had experience riding a PWC. He said his family owned personal watercrafts and he had experience riding them. I asked if he had any kind of boating education classes, he replied some training as an eagle scout, but had not taken DNR boating education classes.  He said that he was traveling south in the Southshore Cove area toward the main body of water. I asked how far away from the docks he was and he responded about the middle of the cove.  Then he went to turn right and the PWC would not turn and made contact with the dock.  I asked if he attempted to stop the PWC by pulling the cut-off switch.  His response was that he panicked.  Operator said that after he hit the dock, he had to get on the dock and push the PWC to free it.  He then said he returned to the dock.  I asked Operator if he had been drinking before he got on the PWC, he said he had some drinks around two to four o’clock.  I then asked if he had been drinking after the incident he replied that had had a few sips of other people’s drinks but did not have his own drink. 
  	I then interviewed a witness to the incident.  At the time of the incident Witness was watching from his home.  He said he observed Operator on the PWC doing loops and was close to the docks.  As Operator came out of the loop, he was still on the throttle with the front of the PWC up out of the water and made contact with the dock.  Witness said the PWC had made hard contact with the dock. Witness said Operator then said “oh fuck” and began to try to get the PWC freed from the dock.  He then observed Operator getting on the dock and rocking the PWC to get it loose.  According to Witness once the PWC was freed, Operator went back to the dock Road where the PWC was put on a lift and covered up.  He said he did not call the incident in because he wanted to see if Operator would do the right thing and call it in.  I asked how much time Operator had to avoid hitting the dock after coming out of the loop. Witness responded “two tenths of a second.”  I also asked Witness how fast was the PWC going before impact. He said it was a high rate of speed.
  		While on-scene, I observed the damage to the dock.  There were busted 2x6 wood boards and part of the busted board was floating on the water.  A pylon that supports the dock was also knocked out of its original position by approximately twelve inches, and there was damage to some of the decking boards. I also observed two pieces of blac
  