ON OR AROUND 12:00 PM ON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2009 VESSELS ONE AND TWO WERE IDLING THROUGH THE NO WAKE ZONE AT THE NORTH END OF GALLANTS CHANNEL.  THE OPERATOR OF VESSEL TWO PULLS UP NEAR VESSEL ONE AND THEY BEGAN TO TALK ABOUT THE BEST WAY TO GET AROUND TO THE RACE.  OPERATOR2 WAYS TO GO OUT TO THE RIVER BECAUSE IT IS FASTER.  OPERATOR1 GOT TO THE END OF THE NO WAKE ZONE AND PUT VESSEL ONE ON PLACE FOLLOWING HER FATHER WHO WAS IN THE BOAT AHEAD OF THEM.  OPERATOR2 THEN PUT VESSEL TWO ON PLANE ABOUT 200 FEET TO THE REAR OF VESSEL ONE.  OPERATOR1 SAW SOMTHING BLOW OUT OF HER FATHER'S BOAT SO SHE STOPPED TO SEE WHAT IT WAS.  SHE GOT THE VESSEL DOWN TO IDLE AND TURNED TO THE LEFT.  AS SOON AS THE VESSEL ONE TURNED LEFT SHE SAW VESSEL TWO COMING STRAIGHT FOR THEM AT A FAST SPEED.  SHE CLOSED HER EYES BECAUSE SHE KNEW THAT VESSEL TWO WAS GOING TO HIT THEM.  OPERATOR2 STATED THAT WHEN HE CAME UP ON PLANE HE WAS ABOUT 200 FEET BEHIND VESSEL ONE.  HE SAID HE GOT WATER IN HIS EYES AND WAS TRYING TO CLEAR IT BY BLINKING OVER AND OVER.  HE SAID THAT WHEN HIS EYES CLEARED HE WAS ABOUT 10 YARDS OFF VESSEL ONES PORT SIDE.  HE TURNED VESSEL TWO TO THE RIGHT AND GAVE IT GAS TO TRY TO GET IT TO TURN AND MISS THEM BUT IT WAS ToO LATE.  THE PORT SIDE OF VESSEL TWO SLAMMED INTO THE PORT SIDE OF VESSEL ONE.  THE IMPACT BROKE THE LEG OF THE PASSENGER ON VESSEL ONE AND EJECTED HER INTO THE WATER.  AFTER OPERATOR2 CHECKED TO SEE IF THEY WERE OKEY HE RAN DOWN THE BOAT THEY WERE TRAVELING WITH AND TOLD THEM WHAT HAD HAPPENED.
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