RedactedNarrative: On may 24, 2014 at approximately 5:55pm, wildlife officers were notified by raleigh dispatch of a boating accident that occurred near the carolina beach wildlife access area and were advised that the victim was being transported to cape fear orthopedic hospital by ambulance. 
   
  Operator stated that he was traveling west in the carolina beach inlet, but when he turned around to head east, he hit a large wave. Upon impact with the wave, operator was thrown up in the air. When operator came back down onto the pwc, his foot slipped off the port gunnel, hit his left shin on the side of the pwc and landed in the water. 
  
  While operator was in the water, he waved down a passing boat which pulled him onto their vessel and took operator back to the carolina beach wildlife ramp. New hanover county ems then took operator to the cape fear orthopedic hospital.