Boating Safety And Accident News

Boating News:

Advocates for sea turtles seek to darken historic Hillsboro Lighthouse
Sun-Sentinel
"It's definitely something that the everyday boater needs. That light stands out more than anything else along the coastline." Montella, who for 30 years has hunted swordfish for pleasure and profit, said Hillsboro Inlet, over which the lighthouse ...

USA. Anchoring Restrictions on the Agenda at City of St. Petersburg Meeting ...
BYM News (press release)
Boat Owners Association of The United States (BoatUS) is urging boaters, cruisers and those who benefit from the economic impact of boater spending to attend this meeting to have their concerns heard. The January 24 meeting follows last year's October ..

 Boating: Sailors' superstitions are still around
The News-Press
Dolphins following in the wake of a boat bring good luck, so for Southwest Florida boaters that is good news. Take America's Boating Course offered by the Cape Coral Power Squadron. The course fulfills the state requirement for boaters born after 1998. ..

Boating Safety News:

Change proposed in no-wake rule
Daily Republic
The South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks has proposed a number of changes to existing boating restrictions on several bodies of water in South Dakota, including Lake Mitchell. The proposal would create a no-wake zone on all of Lake Mitchell ...

 Marco Island Waterways Committee returns to its goals to aid boaters and ...
Naples Daily News
Items included safe boating, canal navigation and signage. Chairman Don Dilks asked how the committee could develop a direct focus on safe boating programs. Committee members Kris Helland and Gale Vinson pointed to ongoing seminars by Marco Island's ...

Boater Education:

  Skipper uses simulator to help improve boating safety
Baltimore Sun Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:46 PM PST
Annapolis skipper uses Dutch-made simulator at school John Martino was not pleased when he saw where organizers of this year's New York Boat Show had stuck his booth inside the cavernous Javits Center earlier this month. He was in a distant corner, far enough from the main flow of foot traffic that he could have been a few blocks west in the Hudson River

Meteorology for mariners: Everything a boater needs to know about weather
Riverhead LOCAL
Weather can cause safety issues on land, but for boaters the potential hazards can be even more serious. Students will become keen weather observers and learn the principles of meteorology. The course focuses on how weather systems form, behave, move, .


Maritime Academy offers cruise basic safety training
NBC 24 Toledo Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:07 AM PST
Monday begins a new cruise ship professional development training and U.S. Coast Guard-approved basic safety training by the Maritime Academy of Toledo Foundation. 

 Boating course to be offered in Sausalito by the US Coast Guard Auxiliary
Marin Independent-Journal
Boat handling, safety equipment, basic navigation, weather, radio, tides and currents, boating safety and more will be covered. For information, contact JoAnn Dunaway at jodunaw@attglobal.net or call 332-5548. The cost including textbook is $75.

Fatalities:

Report: 17 die when boat capsizes in southern Iran
Washington Post
TEHRAN, Iran — Seventeen people have died after a storm capsized a passenger boat off of Iran's southern coast, the official IRNA news agency reported on Sunday. The boat sank Saturday evening while sailing between Hormuz Island and the port city of ...

 Senior drowns after falling off boat near Saltspring Island
News1130
A man drowned after falling off a sailboat near Ganges Harbour on Saltspring Island Sunday afternoon. (Photo courtesy bee wolf ray via Flickr) SALTSPRING ISLAND (NEWS1130) - A senior drowned after falling off his sailboat near Saltspring Island Sunday .

Boating Accidents:

One person injured in boat collision
ABC News 4 Charleston Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:29 PM PST
Rescue crews are currently responding to a boating accident in Berkeley County. 

 UCSC Student's Dream of Living at Sea Is Shipwrecked
Patch.com
The broken dream is 1971 Coronado 27-foot sailboat, destroyed by storm swell while anchored off Cowell's beach, west of the Municipal Wharf. The boat belongs to Alex, a 20-year-old anthropology sophmore at UCSC, who has long dreamed of living aboard a ...

 Stranded Boaters Rescued
WAAY
A Huntsville Fire & Rescue squad found the boaters near the Madison County boat docks off Hobbs Island Road and used a rope to haul their boat onto dry land. Huntsville Fire & Rescue District Chief Ronnie Dodson says, "You also gotta watch the weather, ...

 Power boat burns, sinks in Sausalito
San Jose Mercury News
By Nels Johnson A 30-foot power boat anchored off Sausalito was destroyed early Sunday after a fire broke out, sinking in an angry bay stirred by wind and waves. No one was aboard, and no one was hurt when the vessel burst into flames several hundred ...