RedactedNarrative: ON SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 2021 AT APPROXIMATLEY 5:45 PM, AN OCCUPANT OF A VESSEL IN SHALLOWBACK BAY WAS INJURED WHILE DEPLOYING AN ANCHOR.
  
  VESSEL 1 WAS EXITING MANTEO TOWN MARINA HEADING IN A SOUTHWESTERN DIRECTION WHEN IT EXPERIENCED AN ENGINE FAILURE NEAR THE SECOND CHANNEL MARKER DEPARTING THE MARINA IN SHALLOWBAG BAY.
  
  THE PASSENGER THEN DEPLOYED THE ANCHOR BY HAND WHEN HIS FINGER GOT CAUGHT IN THE CHAIN AS THE ANCHOR DROPPED.  HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER WAS THUS AMPUTATED BY THE FORCE OF THE BOAT'S ANCHOR CHAIN.  USCG OREGON INLET RESPONDED AND TRANSPORTED THE SUBJECT TO THE SHORE.  DARE COUNTY EMS TRANSORTED PASSENGER TO OUTER BANKS HOSPITAL FOR FURTHER TREATMENT. 
  
  THE PROBABLE CAUSE OF THE INCIDENT WAS PASSENGER'S INEXPEIRENCE WITH THE BODY OF WATER THE ANCHOR WAS DEPLOYED IN AND IMPROPER DEPLOYMENT OF ANCHOR.  PASSENGER STATED WATER WAS SHALLOWER THAN HE EXPECTED AND ANCHOR CAUGHT BOTTOM QUICKER THAN HE ANTICIPATED.
  
  
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