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Originally posted by Island Lover
Airwaves
Please don't try and wiggle out of your statement. You quoted the period 2000 to 2004. NOT 2004 alone.
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If you'd like to take the time to re-read my post you will find that the newpaper article I posted quoted Lt. Dunleavy as talking about speed being involved in only 7 of 269 boating accidents during the 2000-2004 period. At the end of that article I even pointed out that the CG stats show there were 320 boating accident in NH during that period.
My comment about 2004 pointed out that were 2 fatal accidents in 2004. No wiggling necessary.
As a matter of fact if you wanted to go to the address I provided as one of my sources you would have found that between 2000 and 2004 there were 24 boating fatalites in that 5 year period in NH, not the 2 you speak of.
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Originally posted by Island Lover:
I will not forget this fatality, nor will I allow incorrect statements like Airwaves to go unchallenged.
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I am sorry if this was a friend of yours, but it does not change the facts as I posted them.
Marine Patrol officers were quoted in a newspaper article that I posted and provided an address so you could read the full article.
The Marine Patrol compiles the statistics on boating accidents in NH and then sends them to the Coast Guard, those statistics are available on line and I provided the address for that as well.
I don't mind taking heat for mistakes, mis-statements etc that I make, but from your reaction I tend to think that this is the first time you've seen in print the feelings of the NH agency that would have to enforce this law and didn't like what they had to say.
So, if you choose to you can read it for yourself.
As I posted in my original post
The article that quotes Marine Patrol officers:
http://www.vnews.com/01312006/2865287.htm
The statistics compliled by the US Coast Guard:
http://www.uscgboating.org/statistic...dent_stats.htm
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Originally posted by Island Lover
Airwaves
You see here is the problem. Your statistics are obviously WRONG!
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Actually, as you can see if you want to read them, I am not wrong.