RedactedNarrative: According to News Media - An  angler and his partner escaped serious injury in a boating accident on Lake Michigan July 10.  They launched in East Chicago, ran to Chicago, caught a few fish, then made the 20-mile ride back to the ArcelorMittal shipping channel near Burns Harbor. As he zoomed into the mouth of the shipping channel, the bottom of his boat struck a large pipe protruding inches above the water off an underwater break wall. The heavy pipe shredded the fiberglass hull the 21-foot Ranger Boat on impact and ejected both men into the lake.  Both anglers were jettisoned across the front deck, over the bow and into 30 feet of water. One was knocked temporarily unconscious when his face slammed into the console on his way out of the boat. Fortunately for both men, the boat turned sharply away as they were tossed over the nose and neither man was struck by the propeller. The boat came to rest against channel rocks. He had the outboard “kill” switch attached to his life vest but had forgotten to attach it to the throttle connector.  The boat did slow to idle speed when his foot came off the gas. Both anglers were wearing life jackets.  One had a traditional foam-filled jacket that covers the back and chest; one was wearing a harness style vest designed to inflate when submerged, it didn’t. He regained consciousness underwater and surfaced The other man was struggling due to his badly injured legs - the prop on the electric motor cut it when he was thrown over the top of it.  The boat had filled with water from a gaping hole torn along the keel on the bottom.
  http://www.southbendtribune.com/sports/outdoors/outdoors-anglers-lucky-after-crash/article_8eab696b-1431-51d9-acf3-56955722da4d.html