RedactedNarrative: While on vessel patrol in Santa Rosa sound, dispatch notified me of a PWC accident with injuries near the Fort Pickens fishing pier and that USCG was towing the PWC to their station on Naval Air Station Pensacola. When I arrived at the CG station I saw two PWCs moored to the dock and EMS personnel loading an injured male into an ambulance.  The victim had facial injuries and a severed lip with blood and bruising. The witness to the accident, was on the dock and I interviewed him regarding the accident.  Witness told me the following:
  
  *The victim was his brother-in-law, and the two men were each riding a PWC that Victim owned.
  *The men had just toured the Pensacola Pass area and were back inside the ICW heading back to Navarre
  *Witness was approximately 50 yards behind Victim.  They were traveling at a high rate of speed and he saw Victim jump a very large wake from another vessel.  
  *Victim's PWC traveled at least 10' straight up in the air off the crest of a large wave.  When the PWC came back down, Victim was ejected and sustained severe injuries from the PWC.  Both men were wearing their PFDs.
  *He helped Victim out of the water and onto his PWC and then a good Samaritan came by and transported Victim to the CG station.
  *Sea Tow, who happened to be in the area, retrieved Victim's PWC and brought it to the CG station and Witness followed in behind the good Samaritan.
  
  After Victim was inside the ambulance, I quickly interviewed him about the accident and he provided me the same information as Witness.  Although in pain and obviously bruised and cut, Victim was very coherent and told me that he never lost consciousness, and that he just got caught off-guard by this rogue wave.  I did not detect any signs of impairment on Victim, who was alert and very cooperative.  I informed Victim and Witness that another officer would meet them at the hospital to obtain written statements from the men, and then allowed the ambulance to depart the scene.   FWC Officer met the two men at the hospital and obtained written statements from them.
  
  I inspected both of the PWCs at the dock.  Neither had any apparent signs of physical damage.  I looked at the PWC Victim was operating closely for any signs of blood or equipment malfunction and did not observe any.  Both of the PWCs had up to date registration, a 2017 safety sticker issued by USCG, and all required safety equipment.  
  
  The following day, 21 July, I visited Victim at his home in order to obtain additional information for this report.  He was walking around outside his home talking with a neighbor when I arrived and only had a band aid across his lip.  He informed me that his shoulder had been dislocated, but the hospital staff set it back in place.  Victim also brought me to his PWC parked in his yard and described the accident in detail to me.  He told me that he was traveling approximately 45MPH when he hit the wave and that his PWC traveled 10 - 15 feet in the air.  When it began its descent, he fell forward and his face hit the top of the PWC dislodging some teeth and cutting his lip.  He continued to fall forward and off the PWC, which subsequently struck his left shoulder and dislocated it.  As soon as Victim surfaced, with the aid of his PFD, he retrieved his whistle and began to blow it until his brother in law came to help him out of the water.
  
  I explained to Victim that he would receive a written warning for violating USCG Navigation Rules:  
  
  Rule 6 - Safe Speed 
  Every vessel shall at all times proceed at a safe speed so that she can take proper and effective action to avoid collision and be stopped within a distance appropriate to the prevailing circumstances and conditions. In determining a safe speed the following factors shall be among those taken into account:
  (a) By all vessels:
  (i) The state of visibility;
  (ii) The traffic density including concentrations of f
  