Boating In Florida

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congestion of Florida’s waterways. With so many boats in the water at one time laws are more important than ever. These laws are set to maintain a safe recreation for everyone that participates. Unfortunately many of these boaters are unfamiliar with some of these laws and as a result they unintentionally cause problems. Do to their inexperience and ignorance may of these problems lead to accidents. These accidents can be prevented by resorting to a simple solution, requiring a license which proves one knows the rules and procedures of boating. To this day there is nothing required to operate a boat but the boat itself. The only people that require any sort of license are kids under the age of 16 and any person committed of two boating violations within one year (Florida m.p). This is not the way it should be. Traffic on the water should be taken just as seriously as the roads. Although the water isn’t quite as congested, as the roads are, the fact of making sure people know how to ...

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ocean floor. The western coast of Pinellas County consists of shallow waters and it is important for the operator of a boat to know where it is safe or not safe to run a boat. When a person drinks while driving their boat it is easy to forget where safe is. If a boat runs into shallow water and bottoms out it will come to a complete and sudden stop. This in turn will throw everything not fastened out of the boat. Since boats don’t come equipped with seat belts we can imagine what happens to the people on board when this happens. This is not the only thing that can happen. We all know that alcohol impairs our judgment, so just like a drunk driver of a car a drunken boater may miss judge ...

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