RedactedNarrative: On Feb 20, 2014 at approximately 1030 hours, a single vessel fatality occurred on Little Lake Jesup at the State Road 417 Bridge in Seminole County Florida. The operator, a black male 79 years of age had launched (V1) his 1974, 16 foot Ebbtide from the Sanford Avenue boat ramp earlier in the day. The operator and his passenger, a black male 75 years of age were returning to the boat ramp when V1 allided with a concrete bridge piling. The allision resulted in the operator being thrown to the deck of the vessel and the passenger being ejected into the water. The operator saw the passenger go under water and not resurface. V1 capsized whereby the operator climbed onto the hull of V1 and was later found by a passing boater. The operator was transported to Central Florida Regional (CFR) Hospital in Sanford with non life threatening injuries and later released. The Seminole County Sheriff’s dive team recovered the passenger’s body. Personnel from the Volusia County Medical Examiner’s office responded and transported the body to their office for further medical examination. 
  (V1-Passenger ) was ejected from the vessel into the water andwas not werig a PFD. According to preliminary findings from the medical examiner, cause of death was drowning. ; Operator sustained a severe laceration to lower left leg, medical attention beyond first aid, received 12 stitches at Central Florida Regional in Sanford.