RedactedNarrative: On August 21, 2017, A single vessel accident took place in the Apalachicola river south of Wewahitchka Florida in Gulf County.  The vessel operator was injured and required overnight evaluation in local hospital. The vessel was destroyed and required extraction from wooded embankment prior to being towed back to landing. 
  
  Sometime during the morning of August 21, operator was clearing out a hunting camp on the river which had been used for the previous few days as a base of operation for conducting Alligator hunts. While departing the hunt camp, and returning to  Lister's Landing, Operator, using a 17' Scout, fiberglass outboard powered motorboat lost control of the boat and veered into the river bank vegetation. 
  
  The initial collision with shoreline vegetation displaced Operator from the helm, and the boat continued its forward motion through the dense vegetation and struck several large trees. 
  
  The boat careened off several other trees and deadfalls, reentered the open river system crossing from the eastside bank to the westside bank, where it struck several more trees, ultimately coming to rest in the woods. Operator was ejected sometime during the collision, and was able to swim / drift to a moored houseboat on the westside bank. 
  
  Operator climbed aboard the houseboat, and remained present until search and rescue units discovered him approximately 8 - 10 hours later.; Victim sustained lacerations and contusions to majority of his extremities, including face and head. He was able to swim / drift to a nearby houseboat where he remained until search and rescue some eight hours later.