Manitou Boats creates shareable online Boater Safety Quiz.

5:56 PM Thu 13 May 2010 GMT

'Getting kids to wear a lifejacket, without question, is a real trick.' YachtShare

National Safe Boating Week is May 22-28, 2010. The National Safe Boating Council will host events across the United States to promote life jacket usage and safe boating. According to the United States Coast Guard, in 2008 there were 4,789 recreational boating accidents that involved 709 deaths and 3,331 injuries. Of the 709 fatal accidents, two-thirds of them drowned. Ninety-percent of those drowning victims were not wearing a life jacket. The U.S. Coast Guard's life jacket wear-rate observational study estimates that the overall life jacket wear rate for adult boaters in 2008 was only 8.1%. Manitou Pontoon Boats has partnered ...

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by Lindsay Bacigalupo