RedactedNarrative: Driver of a PWC collided with the rope between two vessels, one was towing the other. Damage was done to the PWC and the vessel being towed. The driver of the PWC was transported to the hospital regarding chest pain.
  We spoke with the tour guide. According to the guide, the driver of the crashed PWC, Operator 1, left the safety line and went straight into a tow rope that was between two vessels. The safety line is a trail left by the tour guide for the people on the rental PWCs to follow so they stay out of harm’s way. OP1 was the last one in the safety line. The rope made contact with the handlebars of the PWC, breaking them off and slamming them into OP1’s chest. The force then knocked OP1 and his daughter off the PWC and into the water. OP1’s daughter was uninjured. They then brought OP1 back to Ocean’s Edge and he was transported to the Lower Keys Medical Center. 
  	We then met officers at the Lower Keys Medical Center around 2315 hours to interview OP1. According to OP1, he was driving the PWC with his daughter when his prescription seeing glasses were knocked off his face by wakes from the other PWCs and boats. He stated that he saw the two boats, but did not see the rope between them. He was driving at roughly thirty miles an hour when he went between the two boats and into the tow line. The force broke the handlebars off of the PWC, slammed them into his chest, and then knocked him and his daughter into the water. He was then helped onto another PWC, taken back to Ocean’s Edge, and transported to the Lower Keys Medical Center.; Victim:OP1 collided with a rope between two vessels and was ejected from the PWC. He taken to the hospital and informed me that he was suffering from chest pain.
  