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Originally Posted by winnilaker
"... I'll post to stop deleting posts, second that, I don't need to, Woodsy already did. As for replacing old posts, go find the information yourself, any boating accident anywhere in the US, should be public knowledge."
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Boating accidents have a brief life on the Internet. While boating forums will maintain accident accounts for an indefinite period, they can be lost or deleted if viewed as harmful to their "sport". (Or moved to a section off-limits to most inquiring eyes).
If an on-line newspaper reports it, they will archive it after only a month or two. They place it under a heading you must search for -- yourself. (And then you must select the correct one using
their headline). You will then be charged for each newstory -- usually, $3 per article per day. In the Littlefield case, the reporting went on for months -- then
years.
New Hampshire's Marine Patrol had only that one Internet entry, (about the highest national accident rate per acre AND per 1000 registered boats). With so many registered boats, and such a short boating season, it makes sense.
If you want Lake Winnipesaukee accident reports, or "facts", I'm at a total and complete loss as to where to point you. Missouri and Illinois have excellent accident reporting sites.
Federally, the most recent National Transportation "Recreational Boating Fatalities" figures are from the year 2000. (Too easily dismissed here).
Regarding deleted posts, the most-missed ones were those relating to vote-rigging in Forum polls and in newspaper speed-limit polls; however, there's countless scandalous posts still remaining. The cleanup started this summer, because "The Word" had already gone out. The site even asked that their avatars be "cleaned-up".
If they're needed again, I have reams of deleted stuff from Donzi, Scream&Fly, and OSO sites, going back about 18 months. It's not for nothing they were called the Marine Mafia.
If these hardcopies are not needed again, maybe we can make a Time Capsule for them.
