Boating Safety And Accident News

Safety:

Coast Guard Auxiliary Looking For GLSM Flotilla
The Evening Leader
Auxiliary members would help with boater education classes, vessel inspections and rescues. Members also could be part of a crew that patrols the lake ...

Coast Guard Auxiliary rescue team wins awards
St. Petersburg Times Sat, 30 Oct 2010 08:07 AM PDT
By Nova Beall, Times Staff Writer Saturday, October 30, 2010 U.S. Coast Guard ASAR (Auxiliary Search and Rescue) Team from left, Don Frasch, District 7 commander; Dudley Davis of Tarpon Springs; William Kelly of Hudson; and Peter Palmieri of Largo. Coast Guard Auxiliary team wins awards Dudley Davis of Tarpon Springs, William Kelly of Hudson and Peter Palmieri of Largo, all members of U.S. Coast ...

Law enforcement teaming up to promote safe boating in Lee County
The News-Press Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:12 PM PDT
Law enforcement agencies are teaming up this weekend to promote safe boating in Lee County waters. 

Tough new life jacket rules come into force
Illawara Mercury
Port Kembla-based NSW Maritime boating safety officer Deon Voyer said most of the regulations merely backed up practices already routine among sensible boat ..

Fatalities:


No charges filed in fatal crash and boating death in St. Tammany
New Orleans Times-Picayune Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:09 PM PDT
A St. Tammany Parish grand jury this week declined to return charges in a traffic fatality and a boating death that occurred earlier this year. The panel determined that a Mandeville man was not at fault when his friend drowned...

Boat capsizes in Sunderbans, 100 missing
Hindustan Times
A mechanised boat capsized with about 125 people on board on Saturday afternoon in the Sunderbans area. Till 7.30 in the evening, only 15 bodies could be ...


1 Man Dead In Santa Monica Boat Accident
KTLA
SANTA MONICA ( KTLA) -- An Anaheim man died and another man nearly drown after their boat hit a breakwater and capsized late Saturday night near Santa .

Kayaker Drowns After Boat Overturns
WSB Atlanta
ROSWELL, Ga. -- A man drowned after his kayak overturned on Sunday afternoon, Roswell police said. Channel 2's George Howell was on Lake Forest Circle, ..

Missing:


Coast Guard searching for fisherman lost overboard this morning off Gloucester
Boston Globe Sat, 30 Oct 2010 10:04 AM PDT
By Miriam Valverde, Globe Correspondent The Coast Guard is searching for a crew member of a commercial fishing vessel after he fell overboard into the water 46 miles southeast of Gloucester early this morning. "It was reported that he was... 

67yo missing after falling from yacht
Sydney Morning Herald
Northern Territory police are searching waters near Bathurst Island, north of Darwin, for a 67-year-old sailor who fell overboard from his yacht. ..

Fires:

Boat catches fire in Fishermanâs Cove
North Shore News Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:23 PM PDT
A West Vancouver firefighter tackles a fire on a boat at Race Rock Yacht Services in Fishermanâs Cove, West Vancouver, Thursday afternoon. 

Others:

Lifesaving firm credited for racing yacht rescue
Portsmouth News
... beacons sent out a pulse letting rescue services know there was a crisis unfolding, and guiding them to the exact position of the overturned yacht. ...

Man rescued from sinking yacht
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Sat, 30 Oct 2010 04:42 AM PDT
A man has just been rescued from a sinking yacht off North Stradbroke Island near Brisbane tonight. 

Man Thrown Into Arkansas River Following Boat Crash
KHBS-KHOG Northwest Arkansas
CLARKSVILLE, Ark. -- The Johnson County Sheriff's Department said a fishman was thrown from his boat after hitting a barge. Sheriff Jimmy Dorney said ...

A close call serves as reminder for boater safety
The Tampa Tribune Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:56 PM PDT
Local charter captain James Wisner assisted in an early-morning rescue along the Sunshine Skyway. 

2 hospitalized after boating accident in Kemah
11 News Houston Sun, 31 Oct 2010 10:23 AM PDT
KEMAH, Texas â A boating accident at the Kemah Waterway landed two people in the hospital late Saturday night. Authorities received a call for a boating accident at the Kemah Waterway near the Highway 146 Bridge around 11:30 p.m. Upon their arrival, they found five people on the side of the pier. Two people injured in the accident were taken to the hospital, one in serious condition. The others .

Man rescued after boating accident
WWLP Springfield Sun, 31 Oct 2010 07:21 AM PDT
There was a Southwick boating accident early Sunday morning that nearly cost one man his life. 


Boat accident leaves HRRA women united, but also scarred
Poughkeepsie Journal
The boat, as the paint she wore indicated, had gone over her back. But right then, that didn't matter. Nor did her leg pain. The motorboat was resting on .

Kayaker pulled from Presque Isle Bay by Coast Guard Erie Times-News Fri, 29 Oct 2010 22:30 PM PDT A U.S. Coast Guard crew rescued a man whose kayak capsized Friday morning in the choppy waters of Presque Isle Bay. A bystander at the Erie County Convention Center first spotted the 26-year-old Pittsburgh man in the water and called 911 at 8:29 a.m., a county dispatcher said.