Boaters ignore simple safety precautions

8:46 PM Tue 31 May 2011 GMT

'Safe boating practices - remember you may be saving the life of someone you love' .

Feel for the frustration of the various rescue services around the world as their pleading for common precautions seems to go unheeded. It almost seems as though boating enthusiasts are on a suicide mission, so many of them ignore all safety warnings. In the USA National Safe Boating Week has just passed (May23-30) with much publicity in all forms of media about fundamental safety precautions. Yet on the west coast of Florida alone, there were 23 search and rescue missions during that week. So here are the seven simple but crucial life saving practices that coast guards recommend: 1. Always ...

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by Petty Officer 3rd Class Tara Molle/Sail-World