RedactedNarrative: On May 15th at approximately 1500 hours the Maryland Natural Resources Police was on boat patrol in Ocean City on NRP vessel 832 when he heard a call for service from the DNR Communications Center of a boat accident that had just occurred near the White Horse Park Boat Ramp in Ocean Pines off of Beauchamp Rd in Berlin MD.
  Officers responded to the area of the boat accident and met with the owners of both vessels involved in the boat accident. OPERATOR 2 is the owner of the 23' Trophy vessel bearing Maryland registration MD 4385BR that was struck by the pontoon boat bearing Maryland registration MD 7283 DC belonging to OPERATOR 1. Officers asked OPERATOR 2 what had occurred. OPERATOR 2 stated that OPERATOR 1 was backing his pontoon boat in reverse and struck his boat. Officers asked OPERATOR 1 what happened. OPERATOR 1 stated that he was operating in close proximity to the other vessel and going in reverse and that he became nervous in how close he was operating and instead of trying to go forward throttle mistook reverse for forward thus operating his boat in reverse direction and striking OPERATOR 2's boat in a tight canal near the boat ramp. 
  OPERATOR 1 was very apologetic and stated that the accident was his fault and that he takes full responsibility. Officers took photos of the damage of OPERATOR 2's boat and asked OPERATOR 1 if any damage had occurred as result to OPERATOR 1's boat to which he replied there was none. Officers informed both parties of the boat accident process and gave them the NRP CAD number in reference to the boat accident. OPERATOR 2 estimated the damage to be around $2000. Both parties have exchanged information. 
  Officers generated a boat accident report for the investigation. 
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