RedactedNarrative: On 07/16/2019 at approximately 1720 hours officers of the Maryland Natural Resources Police was dispatched to the Sinepuxent Bay and Marsh Creek for a vessel accident involving a rented pontoon and a rented personal watercraft. DNR communications center stated the USCG Station Ocean City was the reporting party and they already had a vessel responding to the area. 
  
  Upon arrival, I observed a marked USCG vessel leaving the area at a high rate of speed. I observed a pontoon vessel with multiple subjects on board and heavy damage to the port side rear of the vessel. I observed several PWC’s a short distance away from the pontoon. I made contact with the pontoon vessel and immediately began triaging the subjects on board for injuries. The subject on board stated they didn’t need EMS and the USCG had already transported the subjects that were injured to their station in Ocean City. I advised DNR communications to contact Ocean City EMS and obtain transport information for the victims. DNR communications stated 3 patients and one guardian were being transported to Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin, Maryland and two subjects refused medical treatment. I contact Off. of the Maryland Natural Resources Police to respond to “AGH” and obtain victim information and written statements for me while I investigated the accident on the water. The operator of the pontoon told me they rented it from “Under the Bridge Watersports” and I advised them to sail it back into the rental dock. I told the operator I would follow them in to make sure they arrived safely.
  
  I made contact with the subjects on the PWC’s and the guide of the rental PWC advised the operator and the passenger was transported by the USCG to their station. I advised the PWC livery guide to tow the damaged PWC and follow me into “Under the Bridge Watersports.”
  
  Upon arrival at “Under the Bridge Watersports” I made contact with the operator of the pontoon vessel. Operator2 stated they had rented the vessel and had a total of 12 persons onboard. I provided Operator2 with pen and paper and had him collect everyone’s personal and information that was on board. There were 8 juveniles on the vessel and I had Operator2 contact their guardians and advise them of the situation. Operator2 stated they were all family and that he and his brother was transported by EMS to AGH were supervising the juveniles at the time. Operator2 stated the rest of the children were fine and didn’t need EMS at that time. While Operator2 gathered the information from the juveniles, I made contact with the guide of the PWC’s.
  
  The guide identified himself and that he worked for Inlet Sea-Doo. Guide stated he already contacted the owner and had them gather the vessel, operator, and occupant information. Guide asked if he could take the PWC that he was operating back to their pier and walk back down to my location. I obtained his contact information and let him take the PWC that he was operating back to Inlet Sea-Doo.
  
  While I was gathering information at “Under the Bridge Watersports” OFC. responded to the USCG station and spoke with the operator and occupant of the PWC. OFC. gathered personal and contact information from those subjects and obtained written statements from them. 
  
  I returned to Operator2 and he provided me with his written statement and all the information I requested about the subjects on his vessel. Operator2 stated he had stopped the pontoon to fix the bimini top near Marsh Creek in the Sinepuxent Bay. Operator2 stated he observed other subjects on PWC’s pass by them heading South. Operator2 advised he looked up again and saw a PWC with two subjects on it heading straight for them. Operator2 stated the PWC never changed it’s course and struck the left side and went over the top of the pontoon. Operator2 said it knocked his brother into the water and metal parts from the pontoon struck several people on the vessel. Operator2 stated they called 911 and the USCG showed up and transported the two people on the PWC and 4 people from his vessel. 
  
  While I was finishing speaking with Operator2, Sgt. of the Maryland Natural Resources Police contact me and advised me of an aircraft crash at 21st Street and the ocean in Ocean City and told me to respond. I gave Operator2 my contact information and told him to contact me if he had any questions. I advised the desk worker for “Under the Bridge Watersports” to tell Guide when he returned to contact me later that evening and I would get his statement from him then. OFC. responded back to my location and picked me up, then we responded together to the aircraft crash. I contacted Off. and had him gather all the information from the subjects that were transported by EMS and leave it for me at the OC boat house. OFC. provided me with contact information and written statements from the subjects on the PWC.
  
  At approximately 2100 hours I contacted Cpl. of the Natural Resources Police and requested him to respond to Inlet Sea-Doo and take photographs of the damaged PWC, get a damage estimate from the owners, and obtain Guide’s written statement. A short while after I made contact with the owner of “Under the Bridge Watersports” who stated he estimated the vessel was a total loss and to replace it would cost approximately $8,000. I took photographs of the damaged pontoon and placed them into the incident report.  
  
  On 07/18/2019 at approximately 0830, I retrieved all the information from Cpl. and placed it into the incident report. Cpl. stated the owner of Inlet Sea-Doo estimated the damages to the PWC were $900. After reviewing details from my investigation and the written statements from all parties involved, I will be charging operator1 with the following charges;
  
  CFR 33:
  
  Rule 5- Look-Out
  
  Rule 6- Safe Speed
  
  Rule 8- Action to Avoid Collision
  
  NR Reg:
  
  08.18.02.05L- Operate PWC in excess of 6 knots within 100’ of another vessel
  
   
  
  