    ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, ON SEPTEMBER 11, 1996, ABT. 7:20P.M., THE DECEASED WAS OPERATING A VESSEL WHEN IT COLLIDED WITH ANOTHER VESSEL.  AFTER THE COLLISION, HE WAS MISSING AN ATTEMPT TO FIND HIM WAS TO NO AVAIL.  ON THE MORNING OF SEPTEMBER 12, THE SEARCH WAS CONTINUED AND ABT. 10:20A.M., HE WAS FOUND INSIDE THE CONSOLE OF THE VESSEL WHICH WAS AT THE BOTTOM  OF THE OCEAN AT GOVERNMENT CUT.