RedactedNarrative: On Deember 3, 2022 at approximately 1:30 P.M. Victim was operating Vessel 1, which is a center console 18ft Gatortail aluminum flat with a remote steered 35 HP Gatortail outboard on Hebert Bayou in the Apache Corp Marsh with no passengers.  Evidence suggests he was on plane while maneuvering a sharp left turn (due to the nature of the bayou) and for reasons unknown fell or was ejected overboard on the starboard side.  
  
  Items and equipment in V1 were observed to be forced towards the starboard side and slightly towards the bow which suggests V1 may have caught a "chine" which abruptly changed V1's course to a more port direction.  V1 then continued ahead without Victim as the operator and grounded onto the shore, completely out of the water.  
  
  V1's engine continued to run in the forward  position  until it ran out of fuel.  Victim was not wearing a PFD during the operation of V1 nor was he wearing the engine kill switch.  
  
  Alcohol was involved/present in this incident, but alcohol and/or drugs are not considered to be a contributing factor.  Victim's body was recovered, deceased, on December 5, 2022, approximately .63 miles from V1.
  