While tenders and toys add excitement and fun to any charter, managing these powerful machines is not always straightforward. Last summer, two charter guests were killed when they crashed a Yamaha WaveRunner into a concrete bridge support near Star Island on the Intracoastal Waterway just off Miami Beach.
The summer before that, a tender crashed through the side of a yacht hull anchored in Ibiza. The two crewmembers who were driving the tender allegedly fell overboard and were not wearing a kill cord. It was reported that the vessel circled for 15 minutes running at 30 knots before ramming into the side of the larger vessel.
In 2016, a total of 1,860 casualties on open motor boats were reported in U.S. waters along with another 721 reported casualties on personal watercraft (PWC), taking the first and second slots for vessels with the top
casualty numbers, according to the United States Coast Guard.
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