Boating Safety and Accident News

Safety classes can prepare boaters for carefree summer Peoria Journal Star - Peoria, IL, USA By CATHARINE SCHAIDLE David Freeman is an experienced seaman, yet he has signed on for boating safety lessons offered by the Illinois Valley Power Squadron. ...

Coast Guard Stresses Boating Safety This Weekend WCPO - Cincinnati, OH, USA The United States Coast Guard hopes it can help make the upcoming Memorial Day weekend as safe as possible for all Tri-State boaters. ...

Safe boating week emphasizes need for life jackets Dickinson Press - Dickinson, ND, USA National Safe Boating Week is a good time to remind water recreationists to wear a life jacket. Nancy Boldt, boat and water safety coordinator for the North ...

Governor Palin Signs Boating Safety Bill in Wrangell KCAW - sitka, AK, USA... Governor Sarah Palin made a stop in Wrangell,Wednesday afternoon, during a trip through the Southeast to sign a bill concerning boating safety. ...

Louisiana Safe Boating Week Bastrop Daily Enterprise - Bastrop, LA, USA By Enterprise News Service The week of May 16-22, 2009 has been proclaimed Safe Boating Week in Louisiana by the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission ...

Safe Boating Week: places to go, tips to remember Examiner.com - USA Because this is Safe Boating Week, here are some safety rules to keep in mind before showing off your vessel this Memorial Day weekend. Know how to swim. ...

Coast Guard reminds us to be safe boaters FOX 41 Louisville Thu, 21 May 2009 09:56 AM PDT Wearing a life vest is the most important advice.

Boat Crackdown Could Be Law By Weekend KOCO - Oklahoma City, OK, USA The measure would lower the legal blood-alcohol limit from .10 to .08, in order to keep impaired boaters off the water. "That makes sense," said Arcadia ...

Arkansas Boating Accidents Up In 2009 KTHV Little Rock Thu, 21 May 2009 09:29 AM PDT Arkansas boating accidents and fatalities are up from this same time last year. Currently, there have been 21 reported accidents with six fatalities. At this same time last year Arkansas had 12 accidents with four fatalities.

Don't forget to get boats properly inspected Cordova Times - Cordova, AK, USA “I want to clearly see the ADF&G numbers on the side of the boat. I also want to see the triangle plate on the port (left) side of the vessel,” Morrisett ...

PFDs lifesavers for men whose boat swamped in bay VillageSoup Belfast - ME, USA “Somehow or another the boat took on water and that ended up swamping it.” Talbot said the men were unsure what time the boat took on water, ...

Mom, child rescued from waters in Fla. Keys NBC 15 Mobile Thu, 21 May 2009 07:47 AM PDT The Coast Guard says a woman and her young daughter were found in the waters off the Florida Keys this week, after they tried to swim to shore when their...

Jonesport man's body found in surf Bangor Daily News - Bangor, ME, USA Lenfesty kept a small sailboat moored near Beals Island. On Wednesday morning, Lenfesty left the island to check on his sailboat, something he did ever day.

Officials: 5 dead in Louisiana boating accident Kerrville Daily Times Thu, 21 May 2009 11:51 AM PDT HOUMA, La. (AP) -- Louisiana officials say five men in town for a fishing tournament died when their 24-foot aluminum boat ran under one end of a barge.

Man arrested for drunken canoeing in New Ulm Post-Bulletin Thu, 21 May 2009 11:34 AM PDT NEW ULM, Minn. -- A New Ulm man was arrested on suspicion of drunken boating after his motorized canoe capsized on the Minnesota River near New Ulm. Two men were rescued. About 8 p.m. Monday, two New Ulm men in the 50s were in a 1993

Adrift more than a year, yacht recovered Soundings Thu, 21 May 2009 10:56 AM PDT Air Apparent, the small yacht abandoned off the north coast of New Zealand last year when the crew mutinied and set off a distress beacon against the captainâs wishes ( Soundings, June 2008 ), was recovered 14 months later by fishermen 870 miles away in Queensland, Australia.

Five dead in La. boat crash United Press International - USA DULARGE, La., May 21 (UPI) -- Authorities in Louisiana said five people participating in a fishing competition were killed when their boat collided with a ...

Three killed when boat strikes barge near Houma WWL - New Orleans, LA, USA Three people were killed and another person was unaccounted for after a recreational boat slammed into a barge in the Falgout Canal in Dulac, about 12 miles ...