OCEAN CITY – Following in the footsteps of the DNR requesting regulations be placed on the new watersport of jetpacks, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has submitted a request to require parasail operators carry a special license to operate following a recent investigation.
On Wednesday the NTSB released its first investigative report into parasailing safety, concluding the activity is largely unregulated with serious accidents frequently caused by faulty equipment.
Because of the nature of an activity that often occurs in changing weather conditions with parasailers suspended 500 feet or more above the water’s surface, accidents often result in death or serious injury. None of the accidents were reported in Ocean City or in any of the mid-Atlantic states.
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2 comments:
If you can regulate them, then you can tax them for the "inspections" and sales at the safety equipment stores that the regulations require go up, bringing in tax revenue.
Yeah, we're all for that,LOL!
We need to tax SOMETHING,after all, we're almost broke! We will be, too right after bankruptcy that we already are.
More regs... ugh!
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