Police say the pilot of a power boat died after he lost control of the boat and collided into a stationary, unoccupied, boat at its mooring in Hamilton Harbour on Sunday.
In a statement, the police did not provide details of the pilot, but said that police, Bermuda Fire and Rescue Services and Emergency Medical Services personnel responded to multiple 911 reports of the incident late Sunday.
‘The power boat pilot sustained a life threatening head injury and was left unresponsive. He was attended to at the scene by EMTs, but was subsequently pronounced dead by an on-call medical doctor.
‘The co-pilot suffered a laceration to his head. He was also attended to at the scene by EMTs before he was transferred by ambulance to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital,’ the police statement noted.
The Bermuda Police Service (BPS) said it ‘is aware that a video-clip of the incident is now being circulated on social media. We ask that you be considerate of the family of the deceased and should you receive the video-clip, do not share it on and instead, delete it from your device’.
It said that no further information will be provided at this time.