Wifey B: Never known anyone to lose a limb to a jet.
I hear the criticisms and many are valid. Still ours fit so nicely on the boat, perform so well and handle rough water great. My current dream boat is a big jet. We were in one when we were in Spain. (I have to put in this aside that we were in Barcelona near the end of June making the news of the past 24 hours even more poignant. Thinking of all victims there and elsewhere. ). But the boat was a 116' AB with triple jets. The one we were on was lower hp than their standard today which runs 50 knots at WOT and cruises at 44 knots. 7800 hp.
Back on jet RIB's. Love em or hate em. Mark me up in the love em category but I know they aren't for most.
We have many high speed ferries out here running between CT and NY as well as Block island. Most all of them are nearly the same size and design around 100' long by 30+ feet wide with between 4,400 Hp and 5,000 hp.
They typically cruise at 30 knots and handle 250-300 persons per trip each hour every day on the summer.
BTW - I have never known anyone to lose a limb to a prop.