Last year when I stopped into the Glendale Marine Patrol headquarters to register a boat, I took a couple minutes to look at the job opportunities for seasonal MP officers.
Before an individual is accepted into the preliminary training program they have to qualify themselves by passing a physical fitness test and psychological oriented interview. The brochure described the physical fitness tests and there was no question in my mind that it was a difficult test. It included having to run so far in a set time limit, pushups, situps, bench presses, all prorated according to one's age.
Performance motorboating, as opposed to paddling a kayak, does not promote physical fitness. Many a performance boater would easily have a very difficult, if not impossible, time passing the MP's fitness test that prequalifies him/her for their training program.
After all, moving that gasoline throttle is hardly an aerobic workout. Neither is lifting a can of beer that's disquised as a can of soda!
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