THE INCIDENT DESCRIPTION COMES FROM A PHONE INTERVIEW WITH THE OPERATOR. HE SAID THAT THIS WAS HIS FIRST TIME ON A PERSONAL WATERCRAFT. HE WAS TRYING TO PULL ALONG SIDE OF VESSEL B. WHEN HE GOT CLOSE HE GOT CAUGHT ON A WAKE AND THOUGHT THAT HE HAD THE PERSONAL WATERCRAFT IN REVERSE, AND GUNNED THE GAS TO SLOW DOWN. INSTEAD HE INCREaSED HIS SPEED INTO VESSEL B.
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