• Home
  • News
    • Politics & Government
    • Business & Economy
    • Crime / Courts
    • Health / Medicine
  • Sports
    • High School Sports
    • Radio Iowa Poll
  • Affiliates
    • Affiliate Support Page
  • Contact Us
    • Reporters

Radio Iowa

Iowa's Radio News Network

You are here: Home / Recreation / Entertainment / It’s National Safe Boating Week

It’s National Safe Boating Week

May 21, 2008 By admin

It’s not by mistake that this is National Safe Boating Week, the week prior to the first big holiday weekend of the summer season. Iowans are encouraged to thoroughly check over their boats and equipment before hitting the water. Scott Eveland, a boating safety officer, says Iowans are much more likely to get hurt in a boating accident than in a car wreck.

Eveland says: "If you’re going to operate a three-thousand pound piece of metal on defined traffic lanes and with brakes, you have to take a test. We’ll give you a three-thousand pound piece of fiberglass with no defined traffic lanes and no brakes and traffic coming from any which way, you don’t have to prove you know what you’re doing. It’s kinda’ scary sometimes."

Eveland says the vast majority of boating crashes in Iowa and nationwide are due to operator error. He adds, many of the deaths related to boating crashes can be prevented with a simple accessory. He says most people who die in boating accidents drown, something that could often be prevented by wearing a life jacket at all times.

With the advances in technology and fashion in many life jackets, Eveland says there is really no excuse to not wearing one on the water. Eveland says anyone who operates a water craft should take the course periodically to refresh themselves on boating safety, and there may even be a financial incentive.

He says, "The hook that we use is to tell people that if they complete a boating safety class, most of the time, they’ll get an insurance discount." The Iowa Department of Natural Resources offers a Boater Education Program. For information, visit "www.iowadnr.com/law/boating/". Forecasters say Iowa should have great Memorial Day weekend weather, with mostly sunny skies and highs in the 70s and lower 80s.

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Filed Under: Recreation / Entertainment

Featured Stories

Senator Ernst says Russian ban shows she’s doing something right

Bill creates new deer hunting season, with AR-15s

Governor signs Iowa Renewable Fuels Standard into law

Jury returns guilty verdict in shooting death of State Trooper

A haboob, a dust storm black out, hits northwest Iowa

TwitterFacebook
Tweets by RadioIowa

Iowa’s Huckstorf garners national award

Iowa Special Olympics Summer games set to open in Ames

Radio Iowa/Baseball Coaches Association High School Poll 5/16/22

Iowa assistant coach Kirk Speraw to retire

Northern Iowa prepares for Missouri Valley Conference softball tournament

More Sports

eNews and Updates

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

Archives

Copyright © 2022 ยท Learfield News & Ag, LLC