ON 6/7/09 subject RENTED A SKI BOAT. MARVIN HAD ASKED operator TO OPERATE THE BOAT SINCE HE HAD EXPERIENCE AND HAD NOT BEEN CONSUMING ALCOHOL. AROUND THE AREA OF LOST DUTCHAMN BAY THE PASSENGERS WANTED TO GO SWIMMING SO OPERATOR MADE HIS WAY TO A SMALL COVE AT THE SOUTHEAST PART OF THE BAY. HE TOLD THE PASSENGERS TO NOT GET INTO THE WATER UNTIL THE BOAT WAS STOPPED. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT NOT ALL THE PASSENGERS HEARD HIS INSTRUCTIONS. VICTIM JUMPED OFF THE STARBOARD SIDE OF THE BOW, AND ANOTHER PASSENGER RAN FROM THE AFT SECTION OF THE BOAT AND JUMPED IN JUST LIKE VICTIM HAD, EVEN THOUGH SHE HAD DEFINITYL HEARD operator NOT TO GO INTO THE WATER UNTIL THE BOAT HAD STOPPED. OPERATOR IMMEDIATLY PUT THE BOAT IN NUETRAL WHICH WAS NOT TRAVELING IN A STRAIGHT LINE. THE BOW WAS TURNING TO PORT THEREFOR, THE STERN WAS MOVING TOWARDS THE STARBOARD, THE SAME SIDE THAT VICTIM AND other passenger JUMPED OFF OF. WHEN VICTIM SURFACED SHE SAID SHE WAS HURT, ANOTHER PASSENGER HELPED HER BACK INTO THE BOAT WERE IT WAS DETERMINED THAT SHE HAD BEEN CUT BY THE PROP. VICTIM HAS AT LEAST 4 LARGE OPEN WOUNDS CONSISTANT TO A "PROP CUT" FROM HER BUTTOCKS DOWN TO THE BACK OF HER LOWER LEFT CALF. ALL PASSENGERS HAD BEEN CONSUMING ALCHOHOL. OPERATOR ADVISED ME THAT HE HAD CONSUMED 1 12OZ CAN OF BEER ABOUT AN HOUR PRIOR TO THE ACCIDENT. I CONDUCTED AN OUI INVESTIGATION ON OPERATOR AND DETERMINED HE WAS WELL UNDER THE LEGAL LIMIT. VICTIM WAS FLOWN TO SCOTTSDALE OSBORN HOSPITAL WITH NON-LIFE THREATENING INJURIES. NOTHING FURTHER.
MESA                          