Ny Teen Killed In Jet Ski Accident In Florida While On Family Vacation

A New York teen has died successful a pitchy skis mishap while connected a family picnic successful Florida.

Rachel Aliza Nisanov, 13, was riding connected a pitchy skis pinch her sister connected Tuesday successful nan Intracoastal Waterway successful Fort Lauderdale erstwhile their watercraft crashed, according to her family and nan Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC).

The FWC preliminary study said nan watercraft operated by nan teens mislaid power and collided pinch a actual dock.

Fort Lauderdale Fire and Rescue said 911 calls came successful astir 3:30 p.m., reporting nan h2o mishap adjacent nan 2800 artifact of NE 24th Court. Both girls were transported to Broward Health Medical Center, wherever Rachel died from her injuries.

Rachel Aliza Nisanov.Family handout / via NBC 6 South Florida

The 16-year-old sister, Aviva Bracha Nisanov, who was driving nan pitchy ski, remains successful captious but unchangeable condition, NBC Miami reported.

The family travel to Florida was to observe Rachel’s graduation, her relative Yonah Nisanov told nan affiliate. He remembered his sister arsenic "just a benignant personification … A belief person. Kindhearted, ever going nan other mile."

"They were coming backmost to nan dock from what I understand, and they mislaid power and they deed nan dock, and they some went flying and deed nan dock," Yonah said.

Yonah recalled that their begetter — Shlomo Nisanov, a well-known rabbi successful New York — was besides connected a individual watercraft astatine nan clip of nan crash. After seeing nan accident, he jumped into nan water, desperately trying to prevention his girls.

"My begetter doesn’t moreover cognize really to swim, he jumped in, my sisters were unconscious, their life jackets were on, they were lying level and my begetter jumped successful and scraped up his hands, feet, his backmost each complete to prevention them, and he did what he could and convey God 1 of them was capable to, and nan different one, unluckily didn’t make it," Yonah said.

"And we don’t understand why it happened, but we judge that this is what’s meant to be, and God is gonna springiness america nan spot to spell guardant and to fortify ourselves," he added.

Rachel’s assemblage was flown to New York, wherever a ceremonial will beryllium held connected Thursday earlier her assemblage is flown to Israel and buried successful Jerusalem.

The proprietor of nan watercraft institution progressive said nan sisters, their parents, and a supervising worker were connected a watercraft erstwhile nan incident happened.

The proprietor told NBC Miami that while Florida rule requires a personification to beryllium astatine slightest 14 years aged to run a watercraft, he needs a driver to beryllium astatine slightest 16 years old, for illustration Aviva.

Fort Lauderdale Police and nan FWC are investigating nan crash.