OPERATOR OF VESSEL # 1 WAS MANEUVERING OUT OF THE PATH OF AN ONCOMING SKI CRAFT, WHILE LEAVING THE SLOUGH FOR LAKESHORE DRIVE ON LAKE MARTIN. ONCE PAST THE SIGNIFICANT WAKE FROM THE PASSING VESSEL PUSHED VESSEL # 1 TO THE STARBOARD UNEXPECTEDLY. UNABLE TO REGAIN CONTROL, THE OPERATOR AND PASSENGERS ON VESSEL # 1 CAME OFF THE CRAFT BEFORE IT COLLIDED WITH VESSEL # 2. VESSEL # 2 WAS TIED TO THE PIERAT WHEN IT WAS STUCK BY VESSEL # 1 ON THE STARBOARD BOW. VESSEL # 1 WENT OVER THE TOP OF THE VESSEL #2 AND CAME TO REST ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PIER. THE OPERATOR AND PASSENGERS OF VESSEL # 1 WERE ALL WEARING PFDS AND THERE WERE NO REPORTED INJURIES.
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