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Originally Posted by jarhead
according to the coast guard 2003 report
.... Now we can all see the dangers of boating , it is in other states withsmall boats going well under you proposed speed limit.
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Your figures are pretty meaningless. You need to have the speed statistics for only the accidents that involved a collision, rather than for every type of boating accident.
35% of boating accidents in 2003 involved the following:
Capsizing 514
Falls Within Boat 233
Falls Overboard 509
Sinking 128
Departed Vessel (swimming) 34
Departed Vessel (other) 11
Flooding/Swamping 274
Fire/Explosion (fuel) 142
Fire/Explosion (other than fuel) 68
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning 20
Falls on PWC 15
Most of these probably happened in small, slow moving boats.
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Last edited by Evenstar; 04-28-2005 at 01:23 PM.
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