I RESPONDED TO MARINA, NORTH MARINA REFERENCE TO A VESSEL CRASH INVOLVING 5 VESSELS.  UPON ARRIVAL, I MET WITH THE OPERATOR OF V1 WHO TOLD ME THAT HE WAS COMING BACK FROM KEY BISCAYNE, FROM A LATE LUNCH.  OP1 TOLD ME THAT HE ENTERED THE WILLIAMS ISLAND MARINA AND PROCEEDED TO HIS SLIP IN THE NORTH SIDE OF THE MARINA SLIP.
   OP1 THE OPERATOR OF THE VESSEL TOLD ME THAT HE HAD THROTTLE OR DRIVE ISSUES IN FORWARD AND REVERSE, AND THAT HIS VESSEL LURCHED FORWARD INTO THE MANGROVES OP1 TOLD ME THAT HE TRIED TO TURN THE VESSEL AND THAT THE MOMENTUM OF HIS VESSEL CARRIED HIS VESSEL NORTH IN THE CANAL AND THAT OP1 HAD NO ABILITY TO CONTROL THE VESSEL CAUSING IT TO STRIKE VESSELS ON THE PIER WHICH WERE TIED AND SECRUED TO THE DOCK.
   IN THE CHAIN OF EVENTS V1 WAS EITHER UNDER POWER OR OFF POWER AT THE TIME AND DRIFTING WITH FORWARD MOMENTUM AND STRUCK V2 SUSTAINED DAMAGE, STRUCK V3 SUSTAINED DAMAGE3 AND STRUCK V4 WHICH WAS IN THE FLOATING DOCK AREA WITH ITS BOW FACING WEST AND ALSO SUSTAINED DAMAGE.
   OP1 TOLD ME HE WAS ABLE TO GET HIS VESSEL TURNED AROUND USING HIS BOE THRUSTER TO FACE SOUTH AND TRIED AGAIN TO MOVE HIS VESSEL UNDER POWER,.  OP1 SAID THAT WHEN HE SAW A SPOT OPEN ON THE PIER HE TRIED TO USE HIS BOW THRUSTER ALONG WITH THROTTLE TO MOOR HIS VESSEL IN DOING SO WHEN HE BACKED IN THE SLOT BETWEEN V5 AND V6 HE MADE CONTACT WITH THE STARBOARD REAR QUARTER OF V5 AND CAUSED DAMAGE.  THEN OP1 USED HIS THROTTLE AND PROCEEDED FORWARD AND STRUCK THE STERN OF V 6 CAUSING DAMAGE AND ALSO DAMAGING THE BOW SECTION HO V1 AND FRONT HULL SECTION.

MARINA
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