RedactedNarrative: On the evening of April 30, 2016 I, Officer of the Maryland Natural Resources Police, was in the area of the Ocean City Inlet around 1700 hours. It was at this time that I noticed a united States Coast Guard vessel run by me with emergency lights on in the direction of their station. After several attempts to make contact with them on channel 16 of my vessels VHF with negative results, I noticed a few PWC beached on the bayside beach of Assateague Island National Seashore and decided to take a look into that. 
  
  Up on the ocean side of the beach, commonly referred to as the "Wedge" I saw 5-8 people standing around with a few more PWC's and two people who looked like Coast Guard officers. The water on the bayside is very shallow and the ocean was too rough to approach so I again tried to make contact with USCG on channel 16. 
  
  This time I was able to talk to someone although they were not helpful in advising what was going on on the island. I then saw the same USCG vessel coming back out of its station and intercepted it on it way to the island. They then told me that there was a subject on the island who had broken his leg while riding in the surf on his PWC and they were bringing him a stretcher to get him to EMS down at the Assateague Island State Park entrance. 
  
  I asked if they needed any assistance carrying the subject off the beach and they advised there was plenty of people already on the island who could help. I also asked why they were not loading the subject onto one of our vessels and transporting him to the nearby mainland to be transported by EMS instead of down the 8 miles of bumpy beach and the officer stated that had not been thought of. 
  
  Just a few minutes later, USCG said they were now going to transport the victim on their vessel back to the station for EMS. The subject was brought over to the vessel and transported back to the station. 
  
        I made arrangement with the victim’s friend to push the victims PWC out to me in deeper water so that I could tow the vessel back to the Ocean City Commercial harbor boat ramp where they launched from. The victims ski had already been run around the inlet prior to me arriving and was on the bayside beach. It was a red and white Yamaha ski with Maryland registration of 7626 BD (pictures are attached to report). The ski was safely towed back to the boat ramp and recovered by the victim’s friends.  
  
        None of the friends that were riding with the victim saw the accident take place but advised me that they were staged on the beach on the ocean side for a period of rest. The victim left the beach and soon after the other riders noticed him away from his ski in the water back pedaling towards the beach. Subject1 and friends went into the surf and pulled Victim onto the beach and noticed his leg to be broken above the ankle but below the knee. They proceeded to call 911 and waited for help to arrive. 
  
        Victim was taken to Atlantic General Hospital around 1750 hours. At 1850 hours, myself and Officer of the same agency, responded to AGH to meet with Victim. He seemed in good spirits and advised us that the doctor said it was broken and he would be getting a cast put on. He also told us that after leaving the beach with his ski, he hit a wave and launched into the air. His legs slid off the back of the ski and went underneath it on the way back down into the water. He then landed in shallow water and his legs were caught between the sand and the ski. 
  
        All events occurred in Worcester County, Maryland.
  