The calls for help have been released, weeks after two sisters on a personal watercraft crashed into a dock on the Intracoastal in Fort Lauderdale, killing one of them and injuring the other.

Fort Lauderdale Police said 13-year-old Rachel Nisanov died when the personal watercraft she was riding with her 16-year-old sister, Aviva, struck a concrete dock near Northeast 24th Court in the Intracoastal Waterway on Aug. 12.

Moments after the incident, eyewitnesses called 911 to report the crash.

“This is a wave acc– what exactly happened ma’am? Tell me exactly what happened,” said the 911 operator.

“I don’t know. I just drove past it. It’s a two person wave runner accident. Jet Ski. They’re being held by someone that was in a tree. I just pulled up, it looks like it capsized,” said the woman

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