Re: Boating safety questions
Welcome to iboats, gw630.<br />"Hi boaters!<br />I'm doing a research for my design class at Art Institute on the effective of boat safety campaign. I appreciate your opinions on the three questions below:<br /><br />1. Are you aware of any boat safety campaign in your area? <br />There is one online for the state of Florida. It is one of many in the country.<br />We also have the Lee County Power Squadron, who annually hold boater awareness seminars and get togethers...I've never been to one. myself.<br />USCG is another agency that is allways happy to steer the new boater in the right direction before taking the helm. Also, the boat-building/sales industry in this state are a very large, vocal group, and as such, offer the new boaters a plethera of training coarses at boat shows and marinas.<br />Call some of the boat sales yards near you and enquire. They would know.<br /><br />"If so, do you think it's effective?<br />Not much, compared to the obviouis increase of boat traffic locally.<br /><br />"2. What reckless/dangerous actions have you seen that could have been prevented?"<br />I'll have to agree, the single-most dangerous practice in general, are juetskis with one-time (rental) operators. They are a fatality waiting to happen. I can't speak for other locations other than statewide,coastal.... They are everywhere, and the riders are insane (or at minimum, operate that way).<br />Another is unfamiliarity with new equipment (the new boater, or boater who just went up in boat size/wieght.<br /><br />"3. Have you taken a boating safety course before? If yes, was it helpful?"<br /><br />Yes, and I don't think anyone who takes one could not walk-out knowing something they did not know before they went in.<br />To pretend to know everything is aragant. Also ,anyone who gets a larger boat should re-take a safe-boating coarse, and practice docking.
