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Washington: A 27-year-old Indian student died after a boat collided with another boat in the US state of Florida. Information about this incident has come to light in media reports.
Venkatraman Pitala of Telangana was operating a rented Yamaha personal watercraft (PWC) that collided with another PWC operated by a 14-year-old boy from the South Florida mainland on Saturday, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). Went
According to the GoFundMe page, funds are being raised to send his body back to his family in Telangana. That Pitala was a graduate student at Purdue University in Indianapolis, Indiana, who was scheduled to graduate in May.
Personal watercraft are tandem boats often called jet skis, which is the name of a popular model manufactured by Kawasaki.
It was not clear whether anyone else was injured, the Miami Herald newspaper reported.
The teen was listed as “innocent” in the FWC report. Keys Weekly reports the arrests are listed as “pending.”
The FWC released an incident report on Monday that included the names of the two people but did not provide any details about what happened next in the case.
The report states that it was an accident involving two watercraft (PWC), resulting in one death. The planes collided with each other.
According to the FWC, the minimum age to operate a personal watercraft in Florida is 14 years old.
The report did not say whether officials determined what was at fault. It said both personal watercraft were rented.