RedactedNarrative: On March 23, 2014 at approximately 7:30pm I, Officer, of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) received a call from the Osceola County Sheriffs Office in reference to a boating accident with injuries. I notified dispatch and was en route to Lake Kissimmee. 
  
  I called and spoke with the hospital the next day, and they told me Operator was in fact admitted and would most likely be there for several days. They also told me that he had broken his neck as well as his wrist. 
  
  On March 27th, I went to the hospital, ORMC, to interview Operator. After interviewing him and taking into consideration the witness statements from the others at the scene i determined that Operator had operated the vessel at an unsafe speed. A violation of Navigational Rule # 6. At that time I issued him a citation for nav rule violation/ unsafe speed. 
  
  At the hospital the nurses station confirmed that he had a radial fracture on his right wrist which required ORIF surgery. He also fractured his C2, and C3 vertebrae in his neck, which also required surgery. 
  
  Operator stated that: 
  - He launched out of Camp Mack. 
  - He left the ridge, headed towards the milk bus. 
  - As he was coming up to the Milk Bus, he hammered the gas 
  - When he hammered the gas, the grass rake acted as a sail, made the front of the airboat lift into the air. 
  - It came back down and the nose began to dig in, so he gassed it again in an effort to regain control. 
  - the front of the boat then lifted again and began to roll ejecting him from the vessel. 
  - the boat rolled left, and ejected him to the right. 
  - he did not hit a clump of grass. 
  
  - the water was rough and it was very windy 
  - he has operated vessels for over 35 years 
  he has operated a vessel in that location over 100 times 
  - he has only operated tis vessel approximately 20 times 
  - he drank 2 beers earlier in the day 
  - he was not wearing a pfd 
  - he had all required safety gear on board 
  - if he was going ten miles an hour the accident would not have accured