On June 18, 2023 at approximately 1053 hours I, Officer First Class, was called to the Havre de Grace Yacht Basin for the report of a subject that was injured while boating. I arrived at the Havre de Grace Yacht Basin at approximately 1120 hours and observed an ambulance leaving the area. I met with Havre de Grace Police and was informed that the subject, would be flown by helicopter to R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma in Baltimore, Maryland. 

I then met with the family who was nearby the fuel pumps at the Yacht Basin with the vessel, a 23 ft Sportsman to gather information about what caused the injury. 

Subject was operating the vessel leaving the Yacht Basin and turning out into the channel toward Fishing Battery Island and the Upper Chesapeake Bay when another vessel was passing. The passing vessel left a normal wake and Operator turned into the wake and came down. When the vessel came down off of the wake the vessel landed hard. 

Victim is said to have had at least two back surgeries and the landing from the wake is assumed to have re-aggravated the previous injuries. Two others separately provided the same account of events. Victim was intubated and unresponsive when transported and flown and was unable to give an account of the events that led to the injury.

All events occurred in Harford County, Maryland.

Upper Chesapeake Bay
Havre De Grace                