Boating Safety and Accident News

USCG Auxiliary's Lake Marion Flotilla focuses on boater safety
Orangeburg Times Democrat - Orangeburg, SC, USA Brown was one of several boaters the local US Coast Guard Auxiliary assisted at Scarborough's Landing, located near Camp Bob Cooper in Clarendon County, ...

Boaters reminded to watch for electrical equipment
Today's Sunbeam - NJ.com - Salem, NJ, USA Remove or lower antennas or flags from large cruise vessels and sailboat hulls before transporting your boat over land. Know the total height of your ...

Population Assessment Finds Too Many Manatees Suffer Death-by-Boat ...
Center for Biological Diversity (press release) - Tucson, AZ, USA Almost 90 percent of the manatees killed by humans were a result of such boat strikes. Manatees are also threatened by water diversion structures, ...

Boater with no radio or phone rescued by Tampa police
Tampa Tribune - Tampa, FL, USA Tampa police rescued a man in a boat with no phone or radio late Friday. Javier Alvarez borrowed a 14-foot boat from a neighbor and took his family to Tampa ...

Search Suspended for Missing Boater near Astoria, Oregon
Salem-News.Com - OR, USA The Coast Guard and two Good Samaritan vessels searched the water for approximately six hours after learning the man and another boater were ejected from ...

Boater Drowns Off Coast Of Hampton Beach
WMUR - Manchester, NH, USA Fire officials say when they got to the scene two boats were already circling the area and as a firefighter began swimming out to them one boater managed to ...

Boater severs digit in Bartlett Lake incident
AZ Central.com - AZ, USA by Lisa Halverstadt - Jun. 14, 2009 07:37 PM A woman lost a digit on a hand after a Sunday boating accident at Bartlett Lake, a Maricopa County Sheriff's ...

Red Funnel statement over close quarters incident
Yachting and Boating World Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:48 AM PDT Marine photographer Tony Toller, captured this moment over the weekend as an XOD yacht sailed across the bow of the Red Funnel IOW ferry Red Falcon , despite repeated warnings from the ferry's captain

YMCA dedicates benches to boat crash victims
Clay Today Online - Orange Park, FL,USA ORANGE PARK – Benches honoring two Dye-Clay YMCA employees killed in a tragic boating accident in April are now in place outside the Moody Avenue facility ...

Two die in Titusville boating accident
The News-Press - Fort Myers, FL, USA TITUSVILLE — An investigation continues into the deaths of a Homestead couple whose motor boat was caught in a sudden, violent storm over the weekend, ...

Two rescued after Saturday boating accident
Utica Observer Dispatch - Utica, NY, USA By - STAFF REPORT Two people were rescued uninjured Saturday after their boat capsized on Oneida Lake, the Oneida County Sheriff's Office said. ...

Two hurt in NH boating accident
Eagle Tribune - North Andover, MA, USA By Jill Harmacinski HAMPTON BEACH, NH — Two people were seriously injured tonight in a boating accident off Hampton Beach that prompted a major rescue by ...

2 Killed In Boating Accident
Central Florida News 13 - Orlando, FL, USA There were four people on board when the boat capsized due to high winds. The winds in the area were gusting around 34 mph. All four were pulled out of the ...

Coast Guard and New Jersey State Police rescue 5 from sinking boat ...
By cgnews FORTESCUE, NJ- The Coast Guard and New Jersey State Police rescued five people Monday aboard a 60-foot boat taking on water near the entrance to the Maurice.Coast Guard News - http://coastguardnews.com/

Knappa man still missing after boat mishap
Daily Astorian - OR, USA One man remains missing after being thrown from a 14-foot "duck boat" in the Columbia River Sunday. Searchers are looking for Richard Dewey, 41, of Knappa. ...

A man was seriously burned early Monday morning when this boat ...
The Northwest Florida Daily News - Fort Walton Beach, FL, USA BLUEWATER BAY - One man was hospitalized with burns to his face and arms after an explosion on a boat early Monday morning at the Bluewater Bay marina ...

Fire damages OP boat and dock
Clay Today - USA ORANGE PARK – A fire sparked by lightning destroyed a boat and damaged a dock Saturday, June 13. The fire in the 2600 block of Holly Point Road The boat and ...

Coast Guard finds 'missing' boater
The Sandusky Register Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:19 PM PDT CATAWBA ISLAND TWP. Personnel from the U.S. Coast Guard at Marblehead launched a search for what they thought was a person in the water, but found a sleeping boater instead.