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FIRST AID
- Every boater should take a first aid course, including CPR and treatment of hypothermia. Being able
to provide minimum first aid may prevent you from having to cut short your
boating day.
- Boats should be equipped with first aid supplies sufficient to deal with
common problems such as minor burns, scrapes, bruises, and sunburn.
U.S. ACCIDENT REPORTING REQUIREMENTS
- Applies to vessels that are used for recreational purposes, or that are
required to be numbered.
- Recreational vessel means any vessel manufactured or operated
for pleasure; or leased, rented, or chartered to another for the
latter’s pleasure and propelled by machinery, sails, oars, paddles, poles,
or another vessel.
- A recreational boating accident means a state registered
recreational vessel, or a documented vessel is being used by its operator
for recreational purposes AND one of the following events
occur:
- Grounding;
- Capsizing;
- Flooding / Swamping;
- Falls within or overboard a vessel;
- Person(s) ejected from a vessel;
- Person leaves a vessel that is underway to swim for
pleasure;
- Person leaves a vessel in an attempt to retrieve a lost item,
another person, or another vessel; |
- Sinking;
- Fire or Explosion;
- Skier Mishap;
- Collision with another vessel or object;
- Striking a submerged object;
- The vessel, propeller, propulsion unit, or steering machinery
strikes a person;
- Carbon Monoxide asphyxiation |
The operator of a vessel involved in a recreational boating accident must
submit a casualty or accident report to the reporting authority in the State
where the accident occurred when:
- A person dies;
- A person is injured and requires medical treatment beyond first aid;
- Damage to the vessel and other property totals more than $2000.00 (or
less in some states) or a complete loss of the vessel; or
- A person disappears from the vessel under circumstances that indicate
death or injury.
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