RedactedNarrative: V1 struck fixed object on starboard bow causing (1) occupant to go overboard.
  
  On the vessel was owner / operator. Operator was holding is left arm and had a cut on his left shin that was bleeding. He told me that his boat was taking on water and he wanted to get it out of the water and on a lift. At approximately 1104, Punta Gorda Fire / EMS transported subjects to Bay Front Hospital in Punta Gorda.
  
  Operator released his boat (V1) to his friend and neighbor who was able to get the boat (V1) on a trailer and out of the water.  Neighbor told me Operator had called him earlier and told him  he had collided with a channel marker in front of Fisherman’s Village and was on his way back home to Emerald Pointe.
  
  I arrived at Bay Front Hospital at approximately 1234 and spoke with Operator who had been diagnosed with a broken left hand and an abrasion to his left shin.  Operator told me he and his wife left Emerald Pointe that morning to fuel their boat up at Fisherman’s Village. He said while they were on plane (approximately 20 MPH) he was traveling south along the designated channel to Fisherman’s Village with the red channel markers along his starboard side (right) when he noticed another vessel in the distance off to his right. He said he was trying to determine if the boat was coming towards or going away from them when he heard Wife scream.  
  
  Wife was sitting in the port (left) bow area of the boat (V1) when it collided with red channel marker 10.  Operator said when he heard Wife scream he looked ahead and saw the channel marker and turned the wheel away as hard as he could but it was too late. Wife was ejected from the boat (V1).  
  
  Operator recalled seeing Wife in the water swimming when he moved the boat over to her, threw her a life jacket and was able to lower the boat ladder into the water and get her back into the boat. He said once she was back in the boat she told him to go home.  Operator said the boat was difficult to maneuver and it was taking in water but appeared to take less water in while underway. He called Sea Tow to inform them of the possibility that his boat (V1) might sink, he then called staff at Emerald Pointe to prepare them to get the boat on a lift and finally he called his friend. 
  
  I then spoke with Wife who suffered extensive bruising to her ribs, arms, and feet. Wife described the same chain of events.
  
  Operator suffered a broken left hand (4th metacarpal, 3rd proximal phalanx) and abrasions to left shin.
  