RedactedNarrative: ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2021 AT APPROXIMATELY 1100, WILDLIFE OFFICERS WERE NOTIFIED BY DISPATCH THAT V3 OPERATOR REPORTED A BOAT INCIDENT THAT OCCURRED ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 1, 2021. THE BOAT INCIDENT INVOLVED FOUR VESSELS AT MASONS INLET NEAR FIGURE 8 ISLAND AROUND 1400.
  
  AFTER OFFICER 1 AND OFFICER 2 INTERVIEWED 3 OF THE VESSEL OPERATORS, IT WAS DETERMINED THAT VESSEL 1 OPERATED BY V1 OPERATOR ENTERED A CONGESTED AREA OF ANCHORED VESSELS WITH AN INCOMING TIDE. AS (V1) MANEUVERED TO ANCHOR NEAR THE ISLAND THROUGH OTHER VESSELS THE MOTOR RAN AGROUND CAUSING IT TO SHUT OFF.  THE CURRENT CARRIED (V1) TOWARDS VESSEL 2 OWNED BY SEA GATE MARINE INC. VESSEL 2 WAS ANCHORED WITH BOTH A BOW AND STERN ANCHOR AND NO ONE ON BOARD. ONCE (V1) WAS RESTARTED IT WAS TOO CLOSE TO (V2) AND COULD NOT MANEUVER DUE TO THE CURRENT AND (V2) STERN ANCHOR. OCCUPANT OF (V1) ENTERED (V2) WHILE THEY WERE SIDE TO SIDE TO PUSH THEM AWAY FROM EACH OTHER.
  THE OPERATOR OF (V2) HAD TO COME OFF THE BEACH TO BOARD HIS VESSEL. THE BOW ANCHOR OF (V2) WAS REMOVED TO TRY TO FREE UP THE OTHER BOAT. AFTER THE BOW ANCHOR WAS REMOVED (V2) TRIED TO RETRIEVE THEIR STERN ANCHOR.
  WHEN TRYING TO RETRIEVE THE STERN ANCHOR (V2) WAS GOING IN REVERSE AND BACKED INTO VESSEL 3 WHICH WAS ANCHORED APPROXIMATELY 75 TO 100 FEET BACK. V3 OPERATOR ADVISED THAT HE AND HIS OCCUPANTS YELLED TRYING TO GET (V2) TO STOP, BUT IT WAS UNABLE TO. UPON IMPACT THE ENGINE OF (V2) HIT THE ENGINE AND SWIM PLATFORM OF (V3). AFTER THE INITIAL IMPACT THE VESSELS HIT STERN TO STERN. THE ANCHORS LINES OF THE TWO VESSELS BECAME ENTANGLED AND (V2) LOST ITS STERN ANCHOR. AN OCCUPANT OF (V3), ASSISTED (V2) BY GETTING ON BOARD AND HELPING THEM GET OUT OF THE CONGESTED AREA. V3 OPERATOR REPORTED THAT V3 OCUPANT INJURED HIS FINGER AND HAND UNTANGLING THE ANCHOR BUT DID NOT NEED ANY MEDICAL ATTENTION.
  (V3) WAS INSPECTED ON AUGUST 3, 2021 BY OFFICER 1 AND OFFICER 2. THERE WERE THREE GOUGE MARKS IN A ONE-FOOT AREA ON THE PORT SIDE OF THE STERN. THE LARGEST GOUGE MARK BEING APPROXIMATELY 3 INCHES THROUGH THE JELL COAT DOWN TO THE FIBERGLASS. IT WAS ALSO REPORTED THAT (V3) HAD BUSTED SEALS ON THE MOTOR TRIM. NEITHER (V1) NOR (V2) REPORTED ANY DAMAGE TO THE VESSELS. 
  VESSEL 4 (UNKNOWN OPERATOR) MADE STARBOARD TO STARBOARD CONTACT WITH (V2) BEFORE IT BACKED INTO (V3). NO DAMAGE WAS REPORTED ON (V4).
  NO INJURIES BEYOND FIRST AID WERE REPORTED. 
  NO CHARGES FILED.
  
  
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