RedactedNarrative: On January 21st, 2022, at approximately 1515 hours, I, Officers were on proactive state water patrol in a marked FWC patrol vessel in Biscayne Bay near Morningside Park when we received a call from our dispatch in reference to a boating accident involving two personal watercrafts (PWCs) that had just occurred near an island North of 79th Street Causeway. We immediately responded to the scene. 
  
  As we were arriving on scene, one subject was being transported to Mount Sinai Medical Center by a Miami-Dade County Fire Rescue vessel due to a rib injury. Officer (FWC) responded to Mount Sinai Medical Center.
  
  Upon arrival on scene, we learned that the two PWCs involved were rentals and we made contact with the livery employees, a witness who was on the livery's pontoon boat, as well as the striking PWC operator on scene. The striking PWC operator stated that as they were returning their PWCs to the pontoon he accidentally crashed his PWC, FL 4635 SU, into his friend on FL 9425 SX. Based on witness testimony and the damage to the PWCs, I believe the striking PWC hit the struck PWC on its port side between the seat and the bow, struck the operator, ramped over the struck PWC, then came down on the starboard side hull of the struck PWC near the stern. 
  
  There was damage to the port side hull between the seat and the bow on FL 9425 SX and the starboard side hull towards the stern. There was minor damage (paint transfer/scuffs) to the bow of FL 4635 SU near the bow eye. 
  
  Operator1 was transported to Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, Florida by a Miami-Dade County Fire Rescue vessel. X-rays revealed he sustained three broken ribs and a punctured left lung. 
  
  I collected sworn written statements from the striking vessel operator and the witness from the pontoon boat. I took photographs of the damage to each PWC involved. 
  
  Based on my investigation I believe this accident was a result of operator inexperience and was accidental. I did not observe any signs of impairment in the striking PWC operator. 
  
  Body worn camera footage was captured during the investigation of this boating accident. 
  
  End of report. 
  
  