RedactedNarrative: This is a single vessel accident involving a subject riding a tube becoming injured. The operator of vessel stated he was traveling around 30 mph. The operator was pulling his spouse on a tube designed to be pulled by boat. He stated there was nothing unusual that happened as they had done this many times in the past. The operator stated that his wife simply fell off tube while being pulled by the personal watercraft and that the wake of the vessel must have caused it. The victim stated that it happened really fast and she remembered falling off the tube and feeling a great deal of pain in her right arm up high around the shoulder area. 
  
  After her fall, the operator turned around to help the victim and while doing so sucked the rope up into the jet of the personal watercraft causing it to become disabled.  At that point he paddled over to his wife and tried to get her on the watercraft but she was unable to do so. At that time, the operator of the vessel called 911 and told his location. The dispatch center in Raleigh called me and told me his whereabouts. 
  
  Upon my arrival, the victim was still in the water and could not return to the vessel. She was in a great deal of pain and had been in the water for about 30 minutes. She was tired and could not make it into my boat as I had instructed her to climb the ladder. At that point, I grabbed her under the shoulder area of her Type III Life Jacket and pulled her into my patrol boat. She then was able to sit up on my seat and I transported her to an awaiting ambulance. I then returned and towed the operator and his personal watercraft to a nearby access area. 
  
  Both subjects involved were wearing a Type III personal flotation device and there was no alcohol involved. The victim that had been riding the tube was treated at a local hospital and had a broken arm that fractured right below the shoulder area. She is awaiting surgery at this time. No further investigation is needed in this accident.
   