MIAMI (WSVN) – A sunny morning turned tragic after a boating accident in Biscayne Bay left a woman dead and sent a man to the hospital, authorities said.<\/p>\n
According to Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission investigators, the victims were ejected from the boat, just north of Nixon Sandbar, at around 10:30 a.m. on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cMiami-Dade Fire Rescue Units responded to a reported marine incident near Crandon Park involving a vessel that had lost control,\u201d said MDFR Battalion Chief Gregory Logue.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a Marine Patrol officer on police headquarters saying that they have a female unaccounted for,\u201d was heard over the Broadcastify police scanner.<\/p>\n
Cellphone video captured the boat spinning in circles after, authorities said, the victims were somehow thrown into the water and then run over by the vessel.<\/p>\n
The sight left bystanders in shock.<\/p>\n
\u201cA guy in a Jet Ski found both people floating,\u201d a man is heard saying in the video. \u201cI\u2019ve got this boat going around in circles. It seems like it chopped off the guy\u2019s leg.\u201d<\/p>\n
The male victim, who was operating the vessel was severely injured, and the woman, who was a passenger, did not survive, investigators said.<\/p>\n
Cameras showed the woman\u2019s body being pulled from the water at Crandon Marina, then loaded onto a stretcher and wheeled away.<\/p>\n
The Coast Guard said that \u201ca Station Miami Beach crew rescued one male with a leg injury and transferred him to No Name Harbor and was airlifted to Ryder Trauma Center.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re calling in regards to a possible incident there, in regards to a gentleman with a possible foot amputated there.\u201d was heard over the Broadcastify police scanner.<\/p>\n
Investigators identified the surviving victim as 54-year-old Neil Schwab of Coconut Grove and his passenger as 33-year-old Claudia Balmaseda Orellanes of Coral Gables.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel bad for the guy and the girl on that boat. He got messed up pretty good,\u201d said the man heard in the cellphone video.<\/p>\n
7News cameras later captured a similar looking boat being towed out of the marina.<\/p>\n