“No. 1 and I can’t stress this enough: wear a life jacket,” Candy Thomson, Maryland Natural Resources Police spokeswoman, told WTOP. “I don’t care if you are Michael Phelps. If you slip from a boat, if you hit your head, if you are incapacitated in any way, you’re not going to be in a position to help yourself.”
With the recovery of the body of a missing boater, Thursday morning near Baltimore, the death total on Maryland waterways is now up to 12.
“The one thing that sticks out last year and this year is the number of victims who were not wearing life jackets,” said Thomson. Every person who has died on a Maryland waterway this year was not wearing a life jacket, she added.
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Some people just can't be bothered with safety rules.
ReplyDeleteI work on the water. I was in the middle of talking to my boss about how if I were OC mayor I would ban boat rentals, when a pontoon goes cruising past with 4 people sitting in front of the gate. This summer has been a stupidity fueled bloodbath on the streets and in the water.
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