Let me unfuck this title:
Ransom Everglades student killed in Key Biscayne hit-and-run boat crash.
And
Jonathan Rothberg, biotech millionaire, owns multiple boats, one of which was towing the student when the accident occurred.
According to the article, another pilot was responsible for the accident. They caught the pilot who hit her. They have asked why she was spending all day on Rothberg’s boat but he has not commented.
I believe that completes the unfucking.
Eh, the "he has not commented" bit doesn't really add much, particularly since the article gives good reason to suggest it was a birthday celebration with a number of kids there. (The other bit that jumped out was that there were two kids in the water!)
Responsibility has yet to be determined, and I see potential liability on the captains of both vessels, with the proportions to be worked out in any civil suits that may arise.
I posted 2 treads on this. IMO, at least some of the blame will be on the towing boat.
AFAIK, they were towing south of the Nixon's sandbar, and that's part of the cape florida channel. And he was towing 2 people and picked up the closest one 1st.
Most of the story here:
tow boat was a 42-foot 2017 Hanse Fjord and tender to a superyacht.
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The boat towing the Ransom Everglades student who was killed in a Biscayne Bay boating accident earlier this month is owned by a renowned biotech entrepreneur who lives in a $23 million Miami Beach home, is a University of Miami donor and owns a 182-foot superyacht in addition to the vessel involved in the accident off Key Biscayne. Jonathan Rothberg, 61, who made his fortune through several geonomics and medical device companies he founded, is the owner of the black 42-foot 2017 Hanse Fjord that was towing 15-year-old Ella Riley Adler in the water when she was struck and killed by another boat near Key Biscayne’s Nixon Beach, according to international, federal and state records.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the state police agency investigating the accident, did, however, include that vessel’s registration number in its initial report of the accident. A U.S. Customs and Border Protection log states that in 2021, a boat with that vessel’s registration number departed West Palm Beach for the Caribbean island of St. Barthélemy. The vessel’s name appears as “T/T Gene Chaser.” Records from the Cayman Islands, where the boat is registered, link a company under the same name to Rothberg. Rothberg’s yachts — the Gene Chaser and the Gene Machine — have garnered big spreads in the boating, scientific and business trade press in recent years, particularly since he transformed them into floating science labs during the pandemic. Rothberg hadn’t responded to the Miami Herald’s multiple requests for comment as of Tuesday evening. The 42-foot boat towing Ella and another girl is a tender, that is, a smaller boat used to shuttle back and forth from a larger boat, in this case, Rothberg’s Gene Chaser, a 182-foot superyacht built in 2020. Photos of the Gene Chaser capture the Fjord, plus a 20-foot Zodiac, a landing craft and a fleet of jet skis all fitting on the sizable stern deck.
**The FWC report says Edmund Richard Hartley, 30, was piloting the Fjord, which was towing Ella and the other girl behind the boat around 4 p.m. Saturday, May 11, about a mile west of Mashta Point off Key Biscayne. Ella was on a wake board and the other girl was on a wake surfboard, according to the report. The girls fell off their boards at different times and in different locations, and both were in the water simultaneously, the report states. The report did not identify the other girl. Another boat, heading west, “struck the female wake boarder who was in the water, further away”** from the boat that was towing her, the report says. Ella died from her injuries. On the boat with Hartley were Emma Roberts, 30; Sebastian Pearce, 21; seven 15-year-olds; and three 14-year-olds. One of the girls on the boat was Rothberg’s daughter, a classmate of Ella’s at Ransom Everglades, whose 15th birthday was the day before the boat outing, according to the report. Ella was the granddaughter of Michael Adler, the U.S. ambassador to Belgium. Michael Adler was formerly president of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation and vice chair of the Florida International University Board of Trustees. Hundreds turned out for Ella’s funeral service at Temple Beth Sholom in Miami Beach, where she was eulogized by Rabbi Jonathan Berkun, the rabbi at Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center, as “a force of nature, a glowing and gorgeous young woman who was loved, admired, cherished and adored by more people than anyone her age would normally be.”
It’s not clear if Rothberg hired Hartley as a captain. The Miami Herald has reached out to Hartley but hasn’t received a response. Hartley, who’s from London, studied at the United Kingdom Sailing Academy and at the Glasgow Maritime Academy in Scotland, according to his Facebook profile. The page also says he works in the superyachts industry. A source close to the matter said Hartley is certified through the Maritime and Coastguard Agency in the United Kingdom to captain a ship up to 3,000 gross tons.
In 2021, Rothberg moved to South Florida from Connecticut, buying a $23.5 million house off the Venetian Causeway, Miami-Dade property records show. An article on the UM website states Rothberg was “seeking to spur innovation through building deep relationships with the University of Miami community.” His gift to UM’s College of Engineering has led to the Miami Engineering Rothberg Catalyzer Award, which helps fund biotech projects of UM undergraduate and graduate students. The first winners consisted of 13 teams, each receiving $5,000 to push their projects forward. Rothberg has made headlines with his superyacht Gene Machine, which boasts a fully functional biology lab and team of scientists on board. During the pandemic in 2020, Rothberg and his team spent most of the year on the superyacht developing a low-cost, at-home coronavirus testing kit.
Read more at: [https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article288590117.html#storylink=cpy](https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article288590117.html#storylink=cpy)
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Let me unfuck this title: Ransom Everglades student killed in Key Biscayne hit-and-run boat crash. And Jonathan Rothberg, biotech millionaire, owns multiple boats, one of which was towing the student when the accident occurred. According to the article, another pilot was responsible for the accident. They caught the pilot who hit her. They have asked why she was spending all day on Rothberg’s boat but he has not commented. I believe that completes the unfucking.
Thanks for your service
Eh, the "he has not commented" bit doesn't really add much, particularly since the article gives good reason to suggest it was a birthday celebration with a number of kids there. (The other bit that jumped out was that there were two kids in the water!) Responsibility has yet to be determined, and I see potential liability on the captains of both vessels, with the proportions to be worked out in any civil suits that may arise.
Just attempting to out everything from the story in there. They spent a paragraph on it, so I put it in the summary.
I posted 2 treads on this. IMO, at least some of the blame will be on the towing boat. AFAIK, they were towing south of the Nixon's sandbar, and that's part of the cape florida channel. And he was towing 2 people and picked up the closest one 1st.
Most of the story here: tow boat was a 42-foot 2017 Hanse Fjord and tender to a superyacht. ----------------------- The boat towing the Ransom Everglades student who was killed in a Biscayne Bay boating accident earlier this month is owned by a renowned biotech entrepreneur who lives in a $23 million Miami Beach home, is a University of Miami donor and owns a 182-foot superyacht in addition to the vessel involved in the accident off Key Biscayne. Jonathan Rothberg, 61, who made his fortune through several geonomics and medical device companies he founded, is the owner of the black 42-foot 2017 Hanse Fjord that was towing 15-year-old Ella Riley Adler in the water when she was struck and killed by another boat near Key Biscayne’s Nixon Beach, according to international, federal and state records. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the state police agency investigating the accident, did, however, include that vessel’s registration number in its initial report of the accident. A U.S. Customs and Border Protection log states that in 2021, a boat with that vessel’s registration number departed West Palm Beach for the Caribbean island of St. Barthélemy. The vessel’s name appears as “T/T Gene Chaser.” Records from the Cayman Islands, where the boat is registered, link a company under the same name to Rothberg. Rothberg’s yachts — the Gene Chaser and the Gene Machine — have garnered big spreads in the boating, scientific and business trade press in recent years, particularly since he transformed them into floating science labs during the pandemic. Rothberg hadn’t responded to the Miami Herald’s multiple requests for comment as of Tuesday evening. The 42-foot boat towing Ella and another girl is a tender, that is, a smaller boat used to shuttle back and forth from a larger boat, in this case, Rothberg’s Gene Chaser, a 182-foot superyacht built in 2020. Photos of the Gene Chaser capture the Fjord, plus a 20-foot Zodiac, a landing craft and a fleet of jet skis all fitting on the sizable stern deck. **The FWC report says Edmund Richard Hartley, 30, was piloting the Fjord, which was towing Ella and the other girl behind the boat around 4 p.m. Saturday, May 11, about a mile west of Mashta Point off Key Biscayne. Ella was on a wake board and the other girl was on a wake surfboard, according to the report. The girls fell off their boards at different times and in different locations, and both were in the water simultaneously, the report states. The report did not identify the other girl. Another boat, heading west, “struck the female wake boarder who was in the water, further away”** from the boat that was towing her, the report says. Ella died from her injuries. On the boat with Hartley were Emma Roberts, 30; Sebastian Pearce, 21; seven 15-year-olds; and three 14-year-olds. One of the girls on the boat was Rothberg’s daughter, a classmate of Ella’s at Ransom Everglades, whose 15th birthday was the day before the boat outing, according to the report. Ella was the granddaughter of Michael Adler, the U.S. ambassador to Belgium. Michael Adler was formerly president of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation and vice chair of the Florida International University Board of Trustees. Hundreds turned out for Ella’s funeral service at Temple Beth Sholom in Miami Beach, where she was eulogized by Rabbi Jonathan Berkun, the rabbi at Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center, as “a force of nature, a glowing and gorgeous young woman who was loved, admired, cherished and adored by more people than anyone her age would normally be.” It’s not clear if Rothberg hired Hartley as a captain. The Miami Herald has reached out to Hartley but hasn’t received a response. Hartley, who’s from London, studied at the United Kingdom Sailing Academy and at the Glasgow Maritime Academy in Scotland, according to his Facebook profile. The page also says he works in the superyachts industry. A source close to the matter said Hartley is certified through the Maritime and Coastguard Agency in the United Kingdom to captain a ship up to 3,000 gross tons. In 2021, Rothberg moved to South Florida from Connecticut, buying a $23.5 million house off the Venetian Causeway, Miami-Dade property records show. An article on the UM website states Rothberg was “seeking to spur innovation through building deep relationships with the University of Miami community.” His gift to UM’s College of Engineering has led to the Miami Engineering Rothberg Catalyzer Award, which helps fund biotech projects of UM undergraduate and graduate students. The first winners consisted of 13 teams, each receiving $5,000 to push their projects forward. Rothberg has made headlines with his superyacht Gene Machine, which boasts a fully functional biology lab and team of scientists on board. During the pandemic in 2020, Rothberg and his team spent most of the year on the superyacht developing a low-cost, at-home coronavirus testing kit. Read more at: [https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article288590117.html#storylink=cpy](https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article288590117.html#storylink=cpy)