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Travelers Stresses Boating Safety as Deaths, Injuries and Property Damage Increase

HARTFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On the eve of National Safe Boating Week, a report from the United States Coast Guard states the number of boating deaths, injuries and property damage

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Rescuers cite need to regulate kayaking

The growing popularity of kayaking in the United States is prompting rescue organizations to call for laws requiring kayakers to take boating safety courses.The head of the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators says an explosion in the number of kayakers along the nation's waterways has become a huge drain on rescue teams, USA Today reported Wednesday.Paddling...

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WordPress is now Granny's recommendation for starting a blog

(After a rant about BW losing their record of his narrowboat Boat Safety Certificate) Bob Scott last week asked me: What I really wanted to ask is, what is the best way to start building a website and a blog?...

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Boating Course Focuses on Keeping Delta Safe

By Peter Ottesen, The Record, Stockton, Calif. Apr. 23--Stockton Flotilla of the Coast Guard Auxiliary offers an American Boating Safety Course from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday at Dameron Hospital Annex, 450 W. Acacia St.

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For most fishing boats, no safety checks

Safety regulations that would be routine on other vessels were skipped on the doomed Alaska Ranger and most other ships fishing the Bering Sea, and it's totally legal, thanks to loopholes that exempt fisherman from most protections.

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March 1322

We got off the boat safely on Thursday morning to the relief of some of us. Although now that we had finally gotten used to the waves we were stumbling around on land with our sealegs. We made our way to the Honduran border where the boys started up a soccer game with all the guys trying to exchange our money they hang around each border and offer you terrible rates. Meanwhile we chatted...

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New fleet, boat safety on Coast Guard chief's list

... said, would scale back from 34 zones for firing to about a dozen.• Allen is concerned about small boat safety. About 700 people die every year in boat accidents, and 70% of those involved didn't take safety courses, he said. The Guard is considering requirements for safety classes.Contact TINA LAM at 313-222-6421 or .

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Estoril Coast

Picking up a car at the aiport in Lisbon we drove west along what is known as the Estoril Coast. Development along the coast started the same way it did in the Algarve tiny fishing villages around coves where fishing boats could safely be anchored. Those fishing villages along the Estoril Coast have by now grown to the point that it is just one long town The neat thing about it is that train...

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Boat safety course offered in The Villages

The Harris Chain Sail & Power Squadron and the Lake County Sheriff's Office in partnership with The Villages Recreation Department have teamed up to offer a Boat Smart safety course at 9 a.m. on Saturday at Lake Miona Recreation Center, 1526 Buena Vista Blvd., The Villages.

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Federally Funded Project Uses AcuNetx Impairment Systems to Evaluate Methods for Improving Boater Safety

Federally Funded Project Uses AcuNetx Impairment Systems to Evaluate Methods for Improving Boater SafetyTORRANCE, Calif.--()--AcuNetx, Inc. (OTCBB:ANTX) announced today that its HawkEye and IntelliPlate systems have been used by the highly regarded research center, The Southern California Research Institute (SCRI, ), in a study intended to establish the basis for framing a national standard...

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House panel keeps bill on boater safety afloat

A bill that would require boaters to take a safety course and have a valid driver's license passed out of a House committee Wednesday.

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Holed pleasure boat safely in dock

A pleasure boat in danger of sinking after it was holed striking Westminster Bridge is safely in dock.

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Holed pleasure boat safely in dock

A pleasure boat in danger of sinking after it was holed striking Westminster Bridge is safely in dock.

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Holed pleasure boat safely in dock

A pleasure boat in danger of sinking after it was holed striking Westminster Bridge is safely in dock.

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Holed pleasure boat safely in dock

A pleasure boat in danger of sinking after it was holed striking Westminster Bridge is safely in dock.