MIAMI — A parasailing cable tethering a young mother and two children to a boat snapped on Memorial Day, plunging them into the water and dragging them at least a mile before they hit a Florida Keys bridge, according to the captain who rescued them.
The 33-year-old woman from Illinois, who authorities have not named, was dead by the time the “good Samaritan” boat captain delivered her and the children to a restaurant in the Middle Keys city of Marathon, which police, Coast Guard and fire-rescue medics were using as a staging area for Monday’s tragedy.
“The woman was deceased on the scene,” said Petty Officer 3rd Class Ryan Estrada, a Coast Guard spokesman.
