Personal Water Craft Racing - Event Competition Deaths. The purpose of this document is to chronicle the fatalities of PWC racing venues to evaluate the safety improvements for Personal Protective Equipment, competition equipment and event safety management

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PERSONAL WATERCRAFT EVENT DEATH REGISTRY
N
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Name Country Event Type of Injury Location Personal
Water Craft
Age Date of
Death
1 Unknown Male USA Hot Water
Tour
Florida Stand-up 1984
2 Naoki Suzuki Japan Japan Stand-up 1984
3 Hisato Shikan Japan Japan 1994
4 Vaggeli Moutsos
Born: 4.18.1970
Canada IJSBA BC
Race
Closed head
injury, vessel
strike
Penticton,
British
Columbia,
CA
Yamaha
Waverunner
Superjet
Expert racer
25 5.29.1995
5 Yuji Endo Japan Japan 9.24.2000
6 Andy McKay USA IJSBA World
Finals
Blunt force head
trauma. Collision
with a vessel at
the race
perimeter
Lake Havasu
Arizona
Stand-up
7 Mark Allen Hahn USA During a race
Heart
Attack-
Blunt
Force
Trauma.
Struck fixed
object
Phoenix,
Arizona Yamaha
Waverunner
Runabout
53 4.17.2004
8 Akihiro Kobayashi Japan Japan 4.16.2005
9 Igor Moskin Russia Russia 7.14.2007
10 Igor Oralov
Born: 6.13.1969
Russia Russian Motor
Sport
Federation
Aquabike
Race
Lost control of
craft, flew off
and hit a wall,
dying on impact
Olympic
rowing
channel.
Moscow,
Russian
Runabout,
K38 Course
Marshal
39 7.18.2008

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11 Jeremy Hoyland Britain Asian Beach
Games IJSBA
Lost at
Sea,
presume
d
drowned.
Vessel Failure
Bali,
Indonesia
Runabout,
Yamaha
Waverunner
10. 2008
12 Masaaki Tazoe Japan Japan 7.5.2009
13 Cesare G.
Vismara
Born: 1973
Italy IJSBA World
Finals
Blunt Force
head and chest
trauama
USA, Crazy
Horse
Campground
s Lake
Havasu AZ
Pro/Am
Runabout
Kawasaki
Ultra 260X
10.18.200
9
14 Majdi Abdul
Majeed
UAE Race Head Trauma.
Vessel Strike
UAE Runabout 12.2011
15 Joseph
Scaturchio
AUS Australian
Watercross
National
Championship
AJSBA
Vessel Trauma
Head Strike
Southport
Broadwater
Pro/Am
Runabout
22 4.22.2012
16 Kevin Zoetaert Belgium Round 2
Belgium
Championship
Head Trauma
Vessel Strike
Mons au
Grand- Large
Stand-Up 25 7.18.2012
17 Ron Tan Kim
Guan “Tan Tan”
Malaysia Fall @ 78 MPH
to water
Tasik Biru,
Malaysia
Veterans
Stand Up
49 1.09.2013

3. 3
18 Khamis Al Hosni Oman Race event Trauma, Vessel
Strike
Qatar Runabout 12.2014
19 Unknown Male Brunei Jetski
Endurance
Competition
Race boat broke
down, made a
phone call when
stranded, large
waves/wind, he
was found
deceased
Pelumpong
Island, Maura
Runabout 3.27.2016
20 Chantouch
Chanthasuntitham
“Copter 99”
Born: 9.24.2001
Thailand Race practice Struck and killed
during practice.
Head trauma
Prachuap
Khiri Khan,
Thailand
Stand Up 14 6.2016
21 Nurul
Hannahdean
Baharuddin
Brunei Brunei Jet
Sports
Association
(BJSA) Endur
o Jet Ski
Challenge
Head trauma
from impact with
another racer on
the track
Serasa Water
Sports
Complex
Stand Up 14 4.11.2018
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Last updated February 12, 1018