RedactedNarrative: Victim 1 stated to the effect:  I slipped, my foot went through the anchor hole and my body turned.  Victim 1 was in obvious massive pain and was being stabilized at the time I saw him.  
  
  Witnesses gave corroborating accounts.  They were on the bow.  (Victim 1) was on the bow and was going to jump off.  There was some horseplay where subject1 either pushed or feinted a push that made victim, slip. 
  
    Subject1 was visibly remorseful about what happened to Victim.  He said they were just playing around then Victim' foot dropped through the pulpit opening where the anchor is normally stored.  His body continued to fall and his body twisted with his shin stuck in the opening.  He was stuck briefly and had to be helped out of the hole by other witnesses.  They laid him on the deck of the bow and waved for help.  Two others indicated that the event was definitely accidental in nature.
  
  Investigation revealed there was no operation of the vessel.  Vessel #1 (V1) was at anchor at the Ship Bottom Sand Bar in the Manahawkin Bay.  Victim and other passengers were on the bow of the vessel at which time for an unknown reason his right foot dropped through the pulpit and his body fell towards the water but his fall was stopped by the trapped leg.  The weight of his body snapped his tibia and fibula bones and did a massive amount of damage to his ligaments in his right knee.
  
  I was on patrol and was waved over immediately following the fall.  I found Victim lying supine being stabilized by passengers on the boat.  I summoned local first aid assets to assist with the evacuation and met Ship Bottom and Beach Haven First Aiders at the Ship Bottom Boat ramp.  I transported first aiders to the victim where they stabilized him prior to transport on Troop vessel 2302 to Ship Bottom boat ramp and subsequently to Southern Ocean County Hospital via ambulance.  
  Closed.
  