RedactedNarrative: On july 31, 2020 around 2:30 pm, operator1 and his friend were cruising the icw, heading towards beaufort. Subject was driving operator1' 21''ft sea ray express. On their way, they ran aground near marker 11a, near spooner''s creek. The men tried to push the boat off the shoal but to no avail. They then tied a rope to the stern ski attachment and subject walked to the edge of the channel with the rope to try to flag down an oncoming vessel for assistance. Their plan was to give the rope to another vessel so they could tow them off the shoal. But no one stopped to assist the men.
  
  After a while they were able to get the boat off the shoal. So operator1 told subject to get back in the boat. At the time the engine was off. Subject climbed onto the transom platform and told operator1 he was on the vessel. Then operator1 turned the vessel on a put it in reverse, not knowing that subject still had the rope in his hand. Unbeknownst to each of them, the rope was caught in the propeller. So when the engine was turned on and put in gear, it pulled subject back in the water where he was cut in various places by the prop. 
  
  Immediately when hearing something splash in the water, operator1 turned off the boat, turned around and saw blood in the water. He jumped in and freed subject''s legs from the rope and had to tear his pants off because they were tangled in the propeller. Operator1 saw three major cuts on him so he lifted subject back into the boat and set him on the stern couch and called for help on the radio. Then he kept pressure on the wounds and made tourniquets for the cuts on his leg and arm. At that time, another vessel stopped and assisted operator1. The coast guard eventually showed up and subject was transported to carteret general hospital where he received a blood transfusion and then was life flighted to vidant medical center in greenville. He had major lacerations on his left calf, left arm and left side of chest cavity and 4 broken ribs and a cracked hip on the left side. He is expected to make a full recovery.
  