The captains, Nathan Fletcher for Poseidon and defendant Ramsey for Clickbait “seem to have little information” about the charter boats, according to the plaintiff in her lawsuit.
The plaintiff also claimed that Ramsey did not provide safety instructions or demonstrations, and did not tell passengers where to sit on the vessel. He allegedly failed to warn them about the danger of sitting on the bow/front of the vessel while underway.
During the voyage, Kokot was seated in the bow of the charter boat. Ramsey allegedly operated M/V Clickbait at a speed that was unsafe.
Plaintiff Kokot sustained life-altering injuries, needed spinal fusion surgery
Ramsey allegedly increased speed and maneuvered the charter boat “headlong into a large wave, which sent plaintiff Kokot hurdling into the air and then slamming violently into the hull of the Clickbait,” according to the lawsuit.
Witnesses including her sister Kim Kelchner “yelled out in distress after watching her sister be thrown violently into the air. Plaintiff Kokot was crying and screaming in pain and yelled out that her back was broken” and then she started to “pass out repeatedly from the pain and injuries,” the lawsuit further stated.
