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At least four people were pulled from the water after a boat slammed into a Fort Lauderdale seawall Friday evening, according to local media.

Emergency responders were called out to the Intracoastal Waterway near the Commercial Boulevard bridge in Fort Lauderdale around 7:30 p.m. The vessel’s operator allegedly lost control and hit the seawall, ejecting all four on board.

All four occupants were adults and were taken to the hospital for treatment. One person was treated for injuries related to near-drowning, another was taken to a trauma center with serious injuries, though these were non-life-threatening, according to reporting from The Miami Herald. Two others had minor injuries.

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Two children have died and two more are in the hospital after a barge hit a sailboat carrying several minors and a camp counselor, 19, from the Miami Youth Sailing Foundation, according to reporting from local media.

The incident happened around 11:15 a.m. between Monument Island and Hibiscus Island in Miami Beach. The collision, which caused the barge to go over the top of the sailboat and caused the sailboat to sink, sent an adult counselor and five children into the water. The children on board ranged in age from 7 to 13 years old, officials said.

Two children — a 7-year-old girl and 13-year-old girl — died at the hospital. Two other girls, 8 and 11 years old, were taken to the hospital and remained in critical condition as of Tuesday morning.

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The body of a 56-year-old boater who disappeared while watching over a stalled airboat on Florida’s Peace River was found this week, according to local media.

Benton Lindsey, was reported missing Sunday and his body was found a day later, according to officials with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Lindsey was on the boat with at least one other person who, when the airboat began experiencing mechanical failures, left on land to find help.

The boat drifted down the river and “a series of events led the operator to end up in the water,” FWC officials said.

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The wife of a former Army captain at the center of a hit-and-run boating incident spoke out to media this week saying her husband is “lucky that he’s alive” after he was hit while snorkeling in the Bahamas.

The incident happened on June 30 while the family vacationed in Exuma. Brent Slough, 42, of Prosper, Texas, was in the water snorkeling when he was sliced by the propellers of a boat that “never stopped,” his wife, Whitney Slough told reporters. Her husband, she said, was hit underneath the buttocks and the legs.

The boat that hit him never stopped.

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At least two people were injured after a pontoon boat crashed into a wooden dock on the Intracoastal Waterway near Beverly Beach in Flagler County on the Fourth of July.

Emergency responders were called around 5:18 p.m. and rescued both people from the water, according to reporting from local media.  At least one person had life-threatening injuries and was taken to a hospital in Daytona Beach. The second person was in “stable condition” and was taken to AdventHealth Palm Coast.

The boat was severely damaged in the crash as were parts of the wooden dock.

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At least five people were rescued from a boat that caught fire Sunday morning off Key Biscayne, U.S. Coast Guard Officials said via social media.

The incident happened at 10 a.m. about eight miles off Key Biscayne. A passing Good Samaritan rescued the five people who were on board after the boat’s operator used a radio to report the fire. All five people involved were brought to shore.

No injuries were reported in this incident.

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At least four boats at the Grove Isle marina in Coconut Grove were damaged after a fire broke out Tuesday morning.

Firefighters were called out to the area around 7:30 a.m. after two boats docked at the marina burst into flames, according to reporting from the Miami Herald. The fire was contained within 10 minutes and no injuries were reported.

Two other boats had exterior heat damage, but their interior were not damaged, according to reporting.

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A boat fire that broke out at the Sunny Isles Beach boat dock resulted in a blaze that damaged several vessels and caused an emergency dock evacuation as well as an evacuation at nearby high-rise condos, The Miami Herald reported Friday.

Firefighters were called out to the area around 5:15 a.m. as the fire spread from the first vessel to those nearby, causing a precautionary evacuation. No injuries were reported, however, photos show blackened vessels in complete ruin in the aftermath of the fire.

A cause of the fire was not immediately available Friday.

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Investigators have revealed the possible cause for a Memorial Day boat explosion on the Intracoastal waters near the Lauderdale Yacht Club that killed one person — the igniting of fuel vapors.

The possible cause was revealed to reporters with WSVN by investigators in an article relaying the recorded 911 calls from panicked witnesses on the day of the explosion.

“A boat just, like, exploded, I don’t know, people just flew off the boat,” one caller told emergency responders. “Everyone’s jumping in the water. I’m watching a boat that I think just exploded, or, I think just caught on fire. I’m not sure what’s going on, there was a loud explosion, now a couple people are back on the boat.”

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At least 11 people were injured when a boat exploded on Memorial Day with 15 people on board, according to reporting from local media.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission told reporters Tuesday that the vessel was a 39-foot Sea Ray. The incident happened in the Intracoastal Waterway around 5:45p.m. near the New River Triangle sandbar. Among the injured were two children, including a 5-year-old.

Many of the injured had burns and were taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s burn unit in Miami.

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