Article published Apr 29, 2006 in the Sarasota Herald Tribune

By: Morgan Stinemetz

Education is the answer to reducing boating deaths


Eighty people died last year in boating-related accidents in Florida. The stated reasons for the accidents -- all of which were thoroughly investigated -- were as varied as clouds in the sky. On the other hand, the one underlying contributory factor, the common thread, the connecting link, was incipient boater stupidity.

I make this point because people don't intentionally go out boating to die. People go boating to enjoy a few hours of fun. The fact that 80 of them passed on to their final ...   more »