RedactedNarrative: On august 31, 2017 i ranger first class (rfc) was dispatched in reference to a boating incident involving two personal watercraft (pwc). Upon my arrival i learned that four teenage males had been pulled from the water and had been taken by boat to the nix bridge boat ramp for triage and transport. I relocated to the boat ramp where i learned that two victims were being transported by ambulance to scottish rite children’s hospital in atlanta to be checked out. The other two victims were both being air lifted to atlanta medical center. 
  
  I spoke with and ascertained a witness statement from the only witness to the incident. Witness after witnessing the incident pulled all four males from the water onto his pontoon boat. After all four victims were transported, corporal (cpl) responded to atlanta medical center to speak with the two victims who were flown there. I photographed the two pwc’s that were involved in the incident and then i responded to scottish rite hospital to speak with the two who were taken there by ambulance. 
  
  Upon my arrival i spoke with and ascertained a statement. I was unable to have a conversation with victim1 due to the fact that he only spoke french. A translator was able to help me get some basic information from him. After speaking with both victims i determined that operator1 and victim1 were on the white pwc and that operator2 and v2 occupant were on the black pwc. Operator1 was operating the white pwc and was following operator2 and v2 occupant at a distance. 
  
  Operator2 and v2 occupant stopped their pwc, jumped off, and re boarded the pwc to swap operators as soon as they re boarded their pwc (which  was stationary at the time of impact) will was sitting in the operators position and operator2 was sitting behind him.  
  
  As operator1 was travelling down the lake he looked back at something in the water for a period of time. When he looked forward again, he struck the port side of the black pwc near the steering console. Operator2 and v2 occupant were also struck by the pwc.  All 4 boys were thrown into the water. They were pulled from the water by witness and initially taken to the dock. After dawson county paramedics arrived, he drove the paramedics and the victims to nix bridge boat ramp. 
  
  Corporal (cpl) responded to atlanta medical center. He met with operator2 and v2 occupant and gathered their information. Neither operator2 or will were able to give a statement due to their condition and the fact that they did not remember what happened. 
  
  After being checkd out at scottish rite hospital, it was determined that operator1 and v1 occupant were not injured. They were released from the hospital. 
  
  Operator2 suffered injuries to his shoulder blade, pelvis, tailbone as well as two broken vetebrae in his back. He spent a month in the hospital but is expected to make a full recovery.  v2 occupant spent several days in the hospital. He suffered four broken ribs on the back side of his body.  He is expected to make a full recovery.
  
  The owner of both pwc’s told me that the white pwc cost $700 to repair and that the black pwc sustained significant damage and would likely be totalled. He estimated the value of the black pwc to be approximately $8500