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Originally Posted by gillygirl
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As the incident in question happened when a paddle boarder came into close proximity to a boat dock, an always dangerous place.
So many situations where such an accident could happen where the boat operator would have little ability to prevent it, but that if the paddle board was not operating so closely to the dock it could have been avoided.
Not saying this was one of those situations, but there are conceivable situations where a boater could not see a paddle board in motion but hugging the end of a dock passing in front of a moving boat where the operator will not be able to stop the boat in time. So in those cases and impact is virtually inevitable unless you keep paddle boarders some distance from the docks.
And once there is any accident, ANY accident, it will cause some people to be afraid for renting/using paddle boards and thats truly a shame. It looks like a really reasonable and fun and usually safe activity, but not around active boat docks.
Just a few feet could be a huge difference.
Of as said before remove all the boats, or all the paddle boards, or invent deflector shields, etc ;-)
ATB