A 27-year-old Indian student died after his watercraft collided with another in the US state of Florida, according to media reports.
Venkataramana Pittala from Telangana was driving 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).
Pittala was a graduate student at Indiana University Purdue University in Indianapolis set to graduate in May, according to a GoFundMe page set up to raise funds to send his mortal remains back to his family in Telangana.
Personal watercraft are tandem boats often referred to as Jet Skis, the name of a popular model manufactured by Kawasaki. It is unclear if anyone else was injured, the Miami Herald newspaper reported.
The teen was listed as 바카라uninjured바카라 in the FWC report. It lists arrests as 바카라pending", the Keys Weekly reported.
The FWC released an incident report on Monday with the names of the two people involved but no details on what transpired.
바카라This is a two vessel (PWC) accident resulting in one fatality,바카라 the report states. 바카라The vessels collided with each other.바카라 According to FWC, 14 is the minimum age to operate a personal watercraft in Florida.
The report doesn바카라t state whether authorities have determined fault. Both personal watercraft were rented, it said.