KENOSHA - A Kenosha man is dead following an early morning boat crash in the Kenosha harbor.

Daniel Eddy, in his mid-30s, died after he crashed his boat into the outer breakwater of the harbor. Two passengers - Andrea Wooters and Charles Meldoff, both in their mid-20s - were injured. Wooters was taken to Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital in Wauwatosa for treatment, while Meldoff was treated in Kenosha.

The U.S. Coast Guard out of Kenosha was the first to respond to the crash.

Coast Guard personnel learned of the crash at about 1:15 a.m., when one of the injured people called 911 using a cell phone. The caller said their boat had slammed into the breakwater and that two of them were on the rocks of the breakwater; another was missing in the water.

Coast Guard personnel were coming out of the harbor when they spotted the debris field, said Petty Officer 3rd Class Matthew Collins.

"We come around the outer part of the breakwater and see the boat in pieces, barely floating," he said. "We see two people laying on the breakwater … up on the rocks."

He transferred two crew members to the rocks to assess and assist the victims before heading back into the harbor to pick up three more rescue personnel to help.

"It was kind of rough at this time as well," he said. "We were getting slammed up into the rocks. We got the EMTs transferred over. They secured the female to a backboard and assisted the male patient on board."

From there, he said, he took everybody back to the harbor to drop off the surviving victims with waiting ambulances before heading back out to search for the still-missing driver of the boat. By this time there was a Coast Guard helicopter, another Coast Guard boat, two fire department boats and a boat from the Sheriff's Department there to assist.

After searching for about an hour, Collins said, they located the driver near the rocks. The Kenosha dive team recovered his body.

Collins said it appears that alcohol was a factor in the crash, according to the

Department of Natural Resources, which is investigating, but it hasn't been determined how much of a role alcohol played.

Collins said he was unable to release a cause of death, and said none of the victims were wearing life jackets. He said he couldn't say whether life jackets would have helped.

"I will say that, of drownings that occur, and this is a Coast Guard-wide number, of drownings that occur, 90 percent of victims are not wearing life jackets," he said. "That's the biggest thing we want to stress. "They're making life jackets lighter, less cumbersome, easier to wear. It will not save you in every situation, but it will definitely help."