It's a favorite summer pastime – tubing on the open water with friends and family – but the familiar activity turned tragic on Wednesday for four teenagers who were tubing on Long Island Sound in Connecticut when two of the girls fell off of their tubes and became entangled in the boat's propeller.

Emily Fedorko, 16, of Old Greenwich was killed and another girl was injured, requiring "extensive stitching" on her leg. Her name has not been released.

According to the New York Times, the girls operating the boat immediately pulled their friends aboard and docked it at the Old Greenwich Yacht Club, where they were met by emergency workers. Fedorko sustained severe injuries to her torso and was pronounced dead at the scene.

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