The operator and passengers departed the area of Chalker Beach on vessel 1. The operator wanted to ride on an inflatable tube being pulled by vessel 1. A passenger assumed the controls and began to operate the vessel. The current operator did not have a safe boating certificate or formal boating education nor had ever operated a vessel before. The operator did not affix the kill switch lanyard prior to operation. The operator operated the vessel approximately 1500 feet off shore and began making large circles towards the left. The operator was on plane with full throttle when the chine of the vessel caught its own wake, causing the vessel to hook abruptly to the right. This abrupt hooking motion caused the operator, and two passengers to go over the portside gunwale and into the waters of Long Island Sound. One victim's leg was caught on the vessel as they got ejected injuring their ankle and another victim tried to swim to the unoccupied vessel and board it and was struck by the propeller.
Old Saybrook                  