V1 WAS ATTEMPTING TO DOCK ALONGSIDE THE STARBOARD OF ANOTHER VESSEL NEAR THE REAR.  V1 APPROACHING FASTER THAN EXPECTED SO IT BUMPED THE OTHER VESSEL.  V1 BACKED UP FASTER THAN OPERATOR WANTED IT TO OPERATOR ATTEMPTED TO CHANGE DIRECTION BY GIVING V1 FORWARD THRUST BUT V1 JOLTED BACKWARDS AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED.  OPERATOR PUT V1 IN GEAR AND THOUGHT THE VESSEL WOULD STOP (TRAVELING IN REVERSE) AND THEN GO FORWARD.  HOWEVER SINCE THE TRANSMISSION WAS ALREADY IN THE REVERSE SETTING V1 SPEED UP AS IT REVERSED AND COLLIDED WITH INJURED WHO WAS FLOATING BEHIND THE OTHER VESSEL ON AN INFLATABLE RAFT CAUSING AMPUTATION TO HER LEFT LEG AT THE FEMUR
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