Boating Safety and Accident News

Paddlers urged to seek safe boating course
Darien Times - Darien, CT, USA When he tried to adjust his fishing pole, he lost his balance, and his boat capsized. Teitell was not wearing a floatation device, so he held on to his ...

Week puts focus on boating safety
Poughkeepsie Journal - Poughkeepsie, NY, USA By Rasheed Oluwa • Poughkeepsie Journal • June 1, 2009 The boating season has kicked off in earnest, with thousands of people expected to take to the ...

Lake Tahoe boating fee program starts Monday
North Lake Tahoe Bonanza - Incline Village, NV, USA LAKE TAHOE — The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency's mandatory boating fees, aimed at keeping invasive species out of Lake Tahoe, begin Monday, lake-wide. ...

Boaters missing off Bell Island
The Telegram Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:09 AM PDT RCMP and coast guard rescue teams are searching for two men, who went missing on the water near Bell Island Sunday night.

Teen plucked from icy island LONE FISHERMAN CAUGHT BY THE TIDE
The Advocate Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:38 AM PDT IT COULD have been a very cold night for a teenager stranded on an island off Penguin in fading light yesterday afternoon. Police and the volunteer coast guard were called to the Three Sisters at 4.30pm where the teen had been caught by the tide while fishing.

Boater injured in fire rescued near Fire Island
Newsday Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:05 AM PDT When a 27-foot boat caught fire Saturday afternoon near Fire Island, a Good Samaritan and a U.S. Coast Guard rescue craft came to the rescue.

Despite rescue efforts, fisherman dies after boat capsizes in lake
Anchorage Daily News - Anchorage, AK ,USA Peter Thomson, 58, swam out to Owens while Steven Stenga, another neighbor, loaded a boat and tried to get to Owens. The two men brought Owens back to shore ...

(UPDATE) Boating victim identified
The News Herald - Panama City, FL, USA By JON MILTIMORE / News Herald Writer CHATAHOOCHEE — A 28-year-old Blountstown man presumed dead remains missing after a Saturday afternoon boating accident ...

Towboat capsizes pulling sailboat
Corpus Christi Caller Times - Corpus Christi, TX, USA CORPUS CHRISTI — Two people in a commercial towboat trying to move a grounded sailboat somehow capsized their own boat in the process, US coast guard ...

Two Men Rescued After Boat Capsizes In Corpus Christi Bay
KRIS-TV - Corpus Christi, TX, USA CCPD told KRIS 6 News that the two men were aboard a red boat that was pulling a sailboat in when apparently they had engine problems and the sailboat got ...

Coast Guard rescues 3 from sinking boat
Daily Press Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:59 AM PDT A rescue team from the U.S. Coast Guard pulled three adults from a sinking boat near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel in Virginia Beach on Saturday night.

Man Dies In Boating Accident
KSFY Sioux Falls Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:26 AM PDT A Nebraska man died drowning in a South Dakota lake Saturday afternoon. South Dakota Game, Fish, and Parks identifies the man as 65-year-old Robert Musil of Nebraska.

London teenager drowns in boating accident in Denmark
Evening Standard Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:32 AM PDT Bradley Carty, 19, fell overboard off the coast at Aarhus. His two friends, watching from the shore, could not save him after he was dragged under by strong currents.

How carbon monoxide kills
The Palm Beach Post Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:17 AM PDT Carbon monoxide facts

Man slightly injured in boat explosion
South Bend Tribune - South Bend,IN,USA Gary S. Terpina, 55, of Homer Glen, Ill. suffered a first-degree burn to his left calf shortly after noon Sunday when his 1994 Mastercraft ski boat exploded ...