Boating accidents down in 2023

[FSH 210 Sport]

https://boattest.com/article/boating-safety-improves-2023?utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8EdweaAfpTtmH0eH3wRtBBR1VLolnRWppNAKYQ5Nn9N8j_dPmkjhmGt6uC8DP-YAcoE04-iXblSU2RDVhInuwUIthxTQ&_hsmi=309583859&utm_content=309583859&utm_source=hs_email

Of note, 87% of drowning occurred with no PFD’s.

Alcohol also played too large of a role in accidents. Too large meaning any at all.

 

[YoDaddy292]

I am assuming that all the Covid-era new boat owners have learned how to safely boat either through near misses, costly mistakes, and overall general learning curve (like the rest of us, but there were a ton of new first timers during those years). Or most of the scary one's have moved on from the boating craze LOL.

 

[Coult45]

I can't believe any of us old guys made it through the '60s and '70s, considering how many people our parents were killing every summer!

• The fatality rate was 4.9 deaths per 100,000 registered recreational vessels, a 9.3 percent decrease from last year’s rate of 5.4 deaths per 100,000 registered recreational vessels. (In 1971, when the Safe Boating Act was first passed, the rate was 20.6 deaths per 100,000 registered recreational vessels.)

 

[YoDaddy292]

I can't believe any of us old guys made it through the '60s and '70s, considering how many people our parents were killing every summer!

• The fatality rate was 4.9 deaths per 100,000 registered recreational vessels, a 9.3 percent decrease from last year’s rate of 5.4 deaths per 100,000 registered recreational vessels. (In 1971, when the Safe Boating Act was first passed, the rate was 20.6 deaths per 100,000 registered recreational vessels.)

I can totally picture a guy ripping through coves that looks like Bert Reynolds in a big block jet boat hauling ass through a crowd with his spray nozzle pointed straight up double fisting cans of Lucky Lager LOL.

 

[anmut]

I can totally picture a guy ripping through coves that looks like Bert Reynolds in a big block jet boat hauling ass through a crowd with his spray nozzle pointed straight up double fisting cans of Lucky Lager LOL.

That was how I grew up. Life vests weren't a thing "if you could swim" - so after we passed swimming class ~ 9 years old, no pfd's mandated on the boat rides!

My uncles and grandparents would water ski without a vest regularly. Everyone was drinking all the time. Wanted to run to the sandbar at midnight for the party - kids stayed home, parents ripped across the lake with barely a working light on at WOT.