RedactedNarrative: We traveled at idle speed, as foggy conditions limited visibility to 3-5 feet in every direction. After around 30 minutes of searching, Operator had flagged us down, by using a flashlight, from the East bank of the river. As we approached alongside his vessel at 0830 hours, Operator seemed to be in a slightly dazed state. He had a few scratches and a small cut on his head, but did not have any major external injuries. Despite that, the bow of his boat had a significant amount of sand from the collision, there was no observed functional damage to his vessel. Operator said that he was ejected onto the river bank and not into the water. We continued to talk to Operator for a few moments, and he expressed that he was well enough to head back to Florence Marina. As a precaution, I rode with Operator in his vessel and we followed Corporal back to Florence Marina at idle speed. 
  
  Operator explained that he left Florence Marina dock at approximately 4:45 am central (0545 hours eastern) to go deer hunting on the Army Corps of Engineers property. He described the conditions to be very foggy with 0 visibility. Operator said he was navigating using GPS southbound towards his destination of Little Barbour Creek, when he lost power to his Garmin GPS unit. He throttled down to reconnect the unit, and then continued back up on plane 15-20mph. Within a few seconds, Operator wrote that he had crashed into a bank on the Georgia side of the Chattahoochee River. The impact threw him head first into the river bank. Operator continued to explain a few moments after the crash, he had called his wife for help who then contacted Florence Marina, and they got in contact with Corporal. Operator recalled that we arrived on scene around 7:30 am central (0830 hours eastern). 
  