Boating Accident Out East

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Looks like there is no shortage of dangerous boaters around:
I'm amazed that after years of reading and hearing about things like this we still don't have more comprehensive mandatory training/testing before licensing.
Or at the very least, see more of that tax and boat registration money used to get more law enforcement presence on the water to keep boaters on their toes.

https://patch.com/new-york/riverhead/4-dive-overboard-head-boat-crash-cops

There have been times when I was out fishing on the 22' boat or running around on the 18' Bowrider that I have been scared to death by a bigger boat and had to either take extreme evasive maneuvers or hold on for dear life but luckily it never got to the point where I had to jump overboard.
 
Rides bow high? Stand up out of your seat.
Got Radar - use it? Especially if on Auto pilot.
No excuse here!
Morons!
 
My boat rides bow high too. It’s a known characteristic for my particular model. That’s why the Sea Ray gods gave me a seat that flips up for leaning. I’ve got radar too, but don’t need it in the middle of the afternoon to see a boat in front of me.
It’s really bad when a boat operator risks his own life and those of his passengers due to inexperience or indifference. It’s a lot worse when that operator starts mowing down other boats too. At least they locked the idiot up.
If we had more of a law enforcement presence on the water during the boating season pulling people over who appear to be operating in a manner that may be dangerous to themselves or others it might stop some of these guys before they can do any damage.
Heaven knows we pay enough in registration fees to cover it.
You’re never going to get them all, but every one that you do get might help to avoid a tragedy.
I’ve literally gone months at a time without seeing a law enforcement boat on the water.
What’s really amazing is how much increased enforcement has proven to reduce DWI on the roads, yet they practically ignore it on the water.
 
sounds like he the sacrificial lamb … Someone else must have been driving and they threw him to the helm... or simply stated he was driving.. Just my thoughts .

Rob
 
Saw this one night when I was covering the E.R. At night, 25 foot cruiser out for slow cruise with friends, struck from behind by speeding go fast boat. Several serious injuries. Alcohol involved of course.
 
We were struck from behind by a boater that was facing aft talking to his wife. She disclosed that she sat behind him because of his driving. Their boat eventually sank over in the Patchogue River because he put it up on a bar so it would sink and be totaled. No alcohol was involved.

Having survived an anchor just missing my a$$ when I was on the flybridge of a 37' convertible it would not surprise me a bit if the operator was stone cold sober.
 
Training is a waste of time. You cant fix stupid.
 
I'm saddened to read yet another one of these. In the big FL accident 2009, a stranger who knew zero about boats had the helm. Apparently the least impaired.
At 20, I'd think the kid here would at least have to have "a Card". Not that I'm a fan of those. Which I hope by now is well known here.
VERY glad no injury or worse.
 
At 20, he's required to have completed the course. NY requires anyone born after 5/1/96 to have one, and that's a 22 year old by now.

If he didn't I guess they can add it to the list of charges.
 
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