15 years old 😢

"Still on the loose", what a ridiculous comment. A 42' Boston Whaler Outrage with four 400 HP outboards at cruising speed would never have felt a thing when running over a petit human body. If you know anything about Nixon sandbar, you know you shouldn't be engaging in water skiing or wake boarding anywhere near there. There is just too much boat congestion and alcohol being consumed. Just look up videos related to Nixon sanbar. The guy who was towing the girl is just as much at fault.

I don’t know how you live with yourself?!

It’s evident that the difference in opinion on who’s at fault comes down to who’s experienced at boating and who’s not. I’ve never been in a boat nearly that big and I can still attest that, even in a small boat, if the water is choppy you can’t see a person in the water easily at all. They can completely disappear from your view for long stretches between swells and, in a boat this size, you wouldn’t see them at all as they’d be obscured by the boat before they’re close enough to see. Then, in terms of hearing or feeling it? Very unlikely. Not in a boat of that size. You have to understand that boats doing over 15 mph or so are cutting through swells and wake. When a multi-ton vessel is skipping through waves it makes a ton of noise, vibrations, and even thumping when you hit wake. So thumping is a totally normal boating sound to hear when going over wake or choppy water. Then you add in all the noise of the engines and the wind, it’s ridiculous to think something that size and weight would even register any sign to the driver that it’d hit something as comparatively small as a person. My heart aches for this dad who insists someone would have to know they ran a kid over but you can even hear in his voice the desperation that he wants it to be true but it also isn’t realistic.

There ARE laws and regulations for boating! It’s your responsibility to know them. I get the feeling the parents interviewed here did not educate themselves before going out on the water and desperately regret it. We live by a lake and I grew up with a boat. Now we just rent one every summer. Invariably, when picking it up and signing papers, there are families or couples there who sound like and appear to be novices yet when asked if they want to do safety training, they pass. I would not be surprised if something similar happened here-novices renting or borrowing a boat. If they’re experienced and knew better, it was highly negligent to be double-towing in a congested, choppy area next to a channel.

Classy Couple

It’s not just Biscayne. There are crazy boaters out there everywhere. I was out in St. Pete last weekend and boaters were going way too fast and too close to one another. Same thing in Lake Geneva Wisconsin. Idiots everywhere. Regardless of age.

You can't go skiing there and talk about safety.

@user-st6nt4ou6f

21 күн бұрын

I thought this but didn't want to say it. It seems that people choose activities with high risk of accident or injury and then want laws changed. Laws will not stop the kind of tragedy that killed this young girl. Real Tal

@Odin33356

21 күн бұрын

@@user-st6nt4ou6f we will ban cigarettes to protect children from chemicals yet it is illegal to grow a tobacco plant in your garden as a natural pest repellent

@Odin33356

21 күн бұрын

@@user-st6nt4ou6f there is no hope for the human race

IF THEY DIDN'T KNOW THEY KNOW NOW.. PROBABLY RAN TO ALABAMA

The Boater hit her and he never stopped. Whoever did this knows just what he did. Praying that they find the person who did it. I truly believe they knew that they hit this child. 🙏💔🙏😭🙏🥹🥹🥹👀👀

@ronbennett8026

20 күн бұрын

Wrong...a 42' Boston Whaler Outrage with four 400 HP outboards would never have felt a thing when running over a petit human body. If you know anything about Nixon sandbar, you know you shouldn't be engaging is water skiing or wake boarding. There is just too much boat congestion and alcohol being consumed. Just look up videos related to Nixon sanbar.