RedactedNarrative: 24' open motor vessel traveling northbound between Alafia Banks Bird Island and 3D dredge island strikes submerged dredge pipe.
  Operator and Passenger had picked up a newly purchased vessel in Sarasota and was transporting it back to his home on the Alafia River OP1 was operating the vessel. He was north bound to the east of the Port Authority 3D dredge island and had just begun turning the vessel to Starboard to begin the turn to the east rounding the west side of Alafia Banks Bird Islands, he was traveling at approximately 25mph. As he began the turn towards the Alafia River channel, he saw an orange buoy to the east and one to the west, he stayed clear of the visible buoys going between them through an unmarked area. As he began the turn, he saw an object under the surface of the water and began to decelerate to avoid a collision. He stated that he decelerated to approximately 15mph when he struck the object. The impact flipped his port engine up into the back hatch area of the compartment popping the nuts on the bolts securing the outboard to the transom. The Port motor no longer fully attached to the transom flipped over striking the starboard motor causing damage to the motor cowling of the starboard motor. Shortly after the allision with what was later identified as a dredge pipe, he came to a stop, at which time he took down the coordinates of his resting place as N27 50.6871 W82 25.6035. He then proceeded at idle speed due to the damage to his port motor to a marina located on the Alafia River just east of the 41 bridge.
  He stated that after stopping he could see markers that advertised the pipeline and dredge equipment on the north side of the Alafia Banks Bird Islands. He stated that at the time of the allision with the pipe this equipment was obscured from view by the islands while traveling north.
  