RedactedNarrative: Vessel hit unmarked pilings in Choctawhatchee Bay at 4-Mile Point, causing injuries to the operator and the passenger, and the vessel to take on water and sink.
  
  While enroute to the ramp, I ascertained through dispatch that there were two people aboard the vessel and they had struck something causing them to take on water, and Coast Guard had already located them and took them to Baytowne Marina where they met EMS, and were transported to the Ft Walton Beach Medical Center.
  
  Lt. met me and we launched my vessel to got attempt to locate the scene of the accident and the vessel involved.  I observed Coast Guard's vessel near the Four Mile Point navigational marker, which I noticed was not lit (it usually has a working green flashing light) and made contact with a crew out of Coast Guard Destin. One of the Coast Guard Crewmen advised me that the vessel had been travelling Eastbound, and around 8:00 PM struck something, and that a tug boat had heard them call mayday on their VHF radio, saw them in distress and pulled up beside their sinking vessel and got them onboard to render aid.  Then the crewman advised  me that they had taken them from the tug boat to Baytowne Marina and that they both walked from the boat to the ambulance, and the female occupant got on a stretcher and was taken by ambulance to Ft. Walton Beach Medical Center.
  
  Once of the Coast Guard Crewman advised me that they had found the sinking  vessel with the bow sticking about four feet above the surface, and they had affixed a flashing light to it.
  
  Lt. and I then went a short distance to the location where there were at one time four pilings in a square area to the south of the channel marker at Four Mile Point.  From the information we gathered, it sounded like it was these unmarked pilings that the vessel struck.  The old pilings used to mark the channel but once the new one was put in these were never removed, and had been hit twice before that I knew of from past boating accidents.  Once we located the pilings, I could only see two of them sticking up about a foot above the surface, a third one was bent facing the East, and the fourth piling I could not see.  The vessel was travelling East, so the piling being bent in that direction is consistent with the direction of force from impact from an Eastbound vessel.  I photographed the pilings, then attempted to locate the vessel.
  
  On my way to the vessel I made a visual assessment of the new channel marker, I again observed that the green light was not operational, and the piling did not look like it had been struck by anything.
  
  I located the vessel approximately a half to three quarters of a mile to the North West of the broken pilings, due to a SE wind the vessel had floated to this location.  I observed only about three to four feet of the bow was above the surface of the water, and I photographed it, and affixed a life jacket to a bow line in case the boat sank further at least the life jacket would be visible.
  
  Officer went to the hospital where the subjects from the accident were located and got some of their information so that I could follow up with them after they got out of the hospital.
  
  On 8-28-2020 I made contact with the subjects, and went to their house to interview them.  They wrote out sworn written statements detailing the events up to the accident and forwarded me a list and photographs of their injuries.  Their injuries are as follows:
  operator: concussion, laceration to chin, torn rotator cuff. - all caused by impacting the console.
  occupant: concussion, bruised brain, fractured face, chipped teeth, fractured c4 and c5 spine, broken finger, broken toe, laceration between nose and upper lip. -all caused by impacting the console.
  
  The next day, I attempted to locate the vessel, but was unable to locate it.
  