TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The family of a 10-year-old Florida boy killed in a boating accident is pushing for a way to make a day on the water safer.
State lawmakers will soon take up “Ethan’s Law,” which was introduced in the boy’s honor. “We always thought he would accomplish great things because of who he is,” Ethan Isaacs’ mother, Mindy Isaacs, remembered. “He was extremely bright, gifted.” In November 2020, a boating accident turned into a tragedy.
Ethan was taking sailing lessons in Sarasota. When he fell out of his sailboat, an instructor in a 90-horsepower boat tried to rescue him but fell on the throttle.The 18-year-old instructor, whom News4Jax is not naming, was thrown overboard with the engine in gear.