RedactedNarrative: This is a single vessel accident with one operator and four occupants. Alcohol was not Involved.
  V-1 was traveling on-plane, at a high rate of speed the operator took a sharp turn to enter the channel. He lost control of the vessel and three occupants were ejected. One of the three ejected occupants sustained fatal injuries from multiple propeller lacerations.
  
  At approximately 2206 hours, Operator was traveling on-plane, south west at approximately 50 Knots. The vessel approached Yacht Channel, five miles north of Long Key Bridge, and was experiencing a very rough sea state, encountering severe thunderstorms. While traveling on-plane, the operator  took a sharp turn to the left, traveling south to east, to enter the channel. This turn was directly into a rough oncoming sea-state caused by the easterly winds. He lost control of the vessel and three people were ejected. Operator and Subject1 were thrown to the stern deck of the vessel.
  
  Immediately following the accident, Operator and Subject1 turned on all the inboard lights and started to look for the other passengers. Operator and Subject1 found Subject2 and Subject3 in the water just behind the boat.  Operator jumped off the vessel to assist Subject2 and Subject3 back on the vessel. Once Subject3 was secured on the vessel she got a spotlight and started to look for Victim. Subjects found Victim and assisted him back to the vessel. Victim had severe lacerations from the propellers. 
  
  Operator started cardiopulmonary resuscitation on Victim. Subject1 threw the Emergency Position Radio Beacon (EPRIB) into the water and deployed the vessel’s anchor. Subject1 called the United States Coast Guard on VHF. The United States Coast Guard and Officer of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission arrived on scene and due to the severe lacerations on Victim they pronounced him deceased. 
  
  United States Coast Guard Boatswain’s Mate operated V-1 to Fiesta Key Marina. 
  
  Victim’s fatal injuries are as follows:   Head:  The head is pulpified with extensive lacerations and skull fractures. A 4 ½ x 3 ¾ segment of the cranial vault is missing.  	 Torso:   The anterior aspect of the 1st-6th right ribs is fractured. The right lung has contusions of the upper and middle lobes. A 4 ½ x 5 ½ inch red-brown bruise is in the superior aspect of the right side of the chest. A 5x5 ¾ - inch defect that extends don into the muscle and bone superior aspect of the right side of the chest is seen. A 3-inch curvilinear red abrasion is in the superior aspect of the mid chest. A 4-inch curvilinear red abrasion is in the right side of the midchest. A 3-inch curvilinear red abrasion is also in the right side of the midchest. A 1 inch incised wound is in the superior aspect of the left side of the chest. A 12 x ¾ inch red abrasion is in the inferior aspect of the left side of the back. A large 16 x 3 ½ inch defect that expends down into the muscle and bone is in the left side of buttocks. A ½ inch area of intact skin between the 16 and 10 inch defects. A 10 9nch curvilinear defect that extends down into the muscle and bone is also in the left side of the buttocks. A 2-inch area of intact skin is between the 10 and 8-inch curvilinear defect that extends down into the muscle is also in the left side of the buttocks.   Extremities:  A 5 x3 1/2 – inch defect that extends down into the muscle and bone is in the superior aspect of the right extremity causing multiple fractures of the right humerus. A 4-inch incised wound that extends down into the muscle is in the right antecubital fossa. A 4 ½-inch full thickness curvilinear incised wound is in the ventr
  