RedactedNarrative: On 06/05/21 at approximately 11:30am, I Officer with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) was dispatched to a boating accident that occurred the day before. The call came into the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office who contacted FWC to conduct a report. I called the original reporting party and set up a time to meet him at his residence.
  	
  	At approximately 1:00pm, I met up with subject1. He stated that he was on his Personal Watercraft (PWC) the day before at approximately 4:30pm with two other young female passengers. He stated that he passed “200ft” behind a vessel named “Lady K” out of Lantana Florida when a large hook and line trailing from the stern of the vessel came up out of the water and hooked into his upper right shoulder. Subject stated himself and his two passengers were dragged from the PWC, and he began to be dragged behind the “Lady K’. Subject began to yell for the vessel to “stop” and “cut the line”. At this time, the vessel stopped and cut the line. He stated that vessel did not attempt to render aid and “took off”. Subject provided me with a Sworn Written Statement. 
  	
  	On 06/14/21 I went to conduct interviews with the Captain and Crew of the “Lady K” at the time of the incident. I identified the Captain and First Mate. Both provided me with Sworn Written Statements with Miranda Rights. 
  
  	The captain of the vessel stated the PWC was “25-30ft” off the back of the boat jumping wakes when the incident took place. He also stated that as soon as he noticed what had happened, he stopped and backed up the vessel so Subject (the PWC operator) could free himself from the line. Once free Operator2 stated Subject “pulled the line to him put it on wave runner and drove off to the south”. In the Captains Sworn Written Statement with Miranda rights and subsequent interview he states several times that he asked if “they were okay or need medical” during the incident. 
  
  	The first mate of the vessel, Subject2 stated he was “scrubbing the deck when I heard a fishing reel go off, I look over and saw line going out while a jetski was crossing our wake”. When he realized the line was pulling the jetskiers off the PWC he “communicated w/captain to stop as I tried to communicate with the jetskiers”. Subject2 said he asked them several times if they “needed help” but could not hear a response. He did hear one response where the females on the PWC yelled he had a hook in his shoulder. Subject2 stated that he believed the hook was in his lifejacket, and when he asked to verify, he did not hear a response. During the interview Subject2 stated that once the male subject was free from the line and back on the jetski he “took off” away from them. Subject2 also stated that the PWC was the first vessel to leave the scene. 
  
  	Both the Captain and first mate stated that a vessel by the name “Sea Mist” was in the area at the time of the incident. 
  
  	On 06/16/21 I went to where the “Sea Mist” is moored in Boynton Beach. I was able to locate one subject who was on the vessel during the time of the incident who stated in his Sworn Written Statement that he saw the “Lady K’ assisting the PWC during the incident. 
  
  	All parties involved were educated on the laws regarding the reporting of Boating Accidents per Florida State Statute. No criminal charges or citations were filed during my investigation.
  
  The victim received lacerations to his neck. The hook was also embedded into his upper right shoulder and had to be surgically removed at the hospital.