A mother from Illinois was killed and her two young children were injured when their parasail was cut loose, dragging them through the ocean and slamming them into the Seven Mile Bridge in the Florida Keys. One of the boys had to be resuscitated with CPR and airlifted to a Miami hospital.
A nearby boater saw them hit the water and rushed to rescue them, pulling the victims into his boat and taking them to waiting paramedics, the U.S. Coast Guard said in aThe 33-year-old woman from Schaumburg, Illinois, had already died by the time they arrived at the nearby Sunset Grill Marina, authorities said. Her 10-year-old son and 9-year-old nephew were taken to hospitals for treatment.
John Callion, a fishing guide, raced around Pigeon Key to reach them, his fiancée, Kasey Platt, told WPLG."He was pretty frantic on the call. He said, ‘Call 911 right away,’" Platt told the television station."It was pretty much flat calm, but you could see the storm coming. All of [a] sudden, the temperature dropped by 10 degrees and the wind started blowing like crazy," Callion said.
The captain on the boat pulling the parasail "cut a line tethered to the three victims" because the parasail was "pegging," or dragging the boat, according to a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission report released Tuesday night. The woman and children were then dragged "through and across the surface of the water" by the inflated parasail until they collided with the Old Seven Mile Bridge, the agency’s report said.
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