Back in the Mesozoic Era--before tubing
skiers were in ascendancy and well aware of the danger when two skiers passed in opposite directions. With each at the end of a 75-foot tether, a "meet-up" at 150-feet would occur at double the skiers' speeds.
We skiers had no gripe with the 150-foot rule.
Florida leads the nation in boating accidents and fatalities.
1) A boater (not personally known to me) living near me in the Florida Keys trailered his speedboat to a canal near my Sebring lake property. With his girlfriend watching, he crashed his boat and drowned.
2) To set a speed record,
Craig Arfones, from out-of-state traveled to Lake Jackson (Sebring, again).
So, with a large (3212 acres) quiet lake and his parents watching, he crashed his boat and drowned.
See where I'm going?
3) A half-hour north of Sebring, two professional baseball players ran their bass boat under a dock, which beheaded both of them. (and were pronounced dead at the scene).
These occurred on Florida
inland lakes: Ocean crashes are much worse!
PWCs lead the way, with paddle boards
catching up. The common denominator being
drowning.
I was surprised to see Florida's
northern St. Johns County in the lead, but when you factor in Florida's richest County with the wealthiest Counties listed (
SE and SW) as the most dangerous for boaters, it sorta adds up!
https://news.wgcu.org/top-story/2024...tate?_amp=true
