15-year-old girl identified after she is struck, killed by boat while waterskiing in Biscayne Bay

Wasn't killed by a boat. She was killed by a Person driving a boat carelessly and recklessly.

It’s sometimes impossible to see a skier who is sitting low in the water, waiting for their boat to start and then pick up speed. Any time a skier is down in the water, having either ceased skiing or preparing to ski, there’s supposed to be a spotter waving a red warning flag on the ski boat. The spotter’s job is to keep an eye on the status and location of the skier and to keep the ski boat’s driver aware of approaching vessels. But sometimes ski boaters don’t bother with spotters or flags. It’s always best for any approaching boat driver to give any ski boat a wide berth, since that ski boat’s users might not be following the rules of safe water skiing.

My deepest sympathies and condolences to the family.

RIP little angel. You are not forgotten. 😢❤

That is the fastest after death funeral I've ever heard of - poor girl.

Damn people don’t even know how to drive a damn boat without hitting someone smh. We got a serious problem in this country with idiots not knowing how to drive

How do you hit someone water skiing? Sounds like somebody is going to prison.

The boat that hit her is described so vaguely that it is hard to believe. There has to be more to this.

0:00 "killed in a boating accident" That's no accident. That's a hit and run. That's murder.

Prayers for her family and friends. Such a beautiful young lady who was very loved. May God bring comfort, peace and justice.

So tragic! My heart goes out to her family.

😢i pray the person has a conscious and turns himself in 🙏🏽

My Deepest condolences to the family and friends. It's unbelievable how tragic and random life can be sometimes.

As a life-long river boater who has pulled dozens of skiers, I have to think it's partly the fault of the tow-boat driver, it's their responsibility to keep their skier safe, if there are approaching boats around they have to steer way clear of traffic, which I have to believe was highly visible this far off shore. If their skier goes down they immediately have to turn around and protect the skier, if that means getting between the downed skier and the approaching boat, so be it. If they neglected to have an observer to immediately yell "Down!" o the drive can take protective action, they are both partly at fault. Also, if there is any kind of traffic the skier must be trained, when they fall, to remove their board or ski and hold it as high as they can to let traffic see them and steer clear. Of course, there could have been lapse of judgment and alcohol in both drivers, and poor training of the skier. The jury is out, but downed skiers are hard to see amongst the chop if they don't hold their ski up or the towboat doesn't raise their red/orange ski flag high as soon as the skier goes down. Lot of blame to go around, but the driver who hit the skier should have been way clear of towboat activity. If the towboat was slow to know they had a downed skier and turn around, and if they didn't raise a flag, or the skier didn't raise their board, they were asking for trouble. No excuse for drinking or a hit and run...but don't put all the blame in one place when you don't know the facts.

Who was steering that boat? Was that person drunk? How could you not see her.

I'm so sorry 😢

Senseless! That poor family, how devastating.

She went from talking about tragedy to her being a dancer.....this whole story is horrible and the reporter didnt help

Why did the school "identify" her? Why didn't her parents? Why is the school making statements?

Sounds like both people driving boats had no business driving. Neither knew rules of the water.