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Man’s leg seriously injured by boat prop in Florida Keys

Posted on Jan 13, 2012

A boat operator’s leg was badly damaged by his own boat after he fell overboard in the Florida Keys.

Thomas N. Davidson, 52, of Ottawa, Canada was operating a 16-foot Dolphin Flats Boat off of North Key Largo Sunday when he fell overboard, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

The boat kept moving, circled back toward Davidson, and its prop seriously gashed his leg.

Davidson clung for his life onto mangroves. He was rescued by a group of personal watercraft riders who took him to a local treatment facility. From there he was transported by helicopter to Ryder Trauma Center in Miami where he remained hospitalized in unknown condition.

The accident could easily have been a fatality, “it could have been a lot worse,” said FWC Spokesman Bobby Dube.

The accident supports the need for operators to “consider installing a kill-switch on their vessels,” said Dube.

Source: Keys Net.com

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