Rachel Aliza Nisanov, her older sister and their parents came to Florida from New York on Friday to celebrate the start of a new chapter for the teenager.

Just shy of turning 14 years old, Rachel recently graduated from Bnos Malka Academy in Queens, New York, and the trip to Florida was her gift before starting at a new school, her paternal aunt Nadya Nisanov told the South Florida Sun Sentinel on Wednesday.

Rabbi Shlomo Nisanov and his family’s vacation didn’t plan to end until this Friday. On Tuesday afternoon, the group of four were riding personal watercraft vehicles in the Intracoastal Waterway in Fort Lauderdale when the girls, riding together on one of the vehicles, crashed into a dock.

Three personal watercraft were operating at the time of the crash “as part of a guided tour,”

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