Amie I thought those things were supposed to come to an idle and make small circles whenever the operators fell off. We have lot's of accidents down our way involving PWCs, alcohol and inexperienced operators. Those contraptions don't fare too well with the go fast offshore fishing boats hauling the mail through our inlets around these parts.
Years ago whenever we first bought our smaller boat that was used primarily on the lakes around the Orlando area we had problems with folks on PWCs jumping our wake close to the boat and then getting a kick out of splashing the occupants ... a long spinning rod with a nice heavy casting plug and huge treble hooks resolved that issue.
