Steve Rizza
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I was digging around and came across these statistics from 2002.
In 1963 there were 33 deaths per 100,000 boats
in 2002 there were 5.8 per 1000,000
2002 in the Us and territories there were (that were reported)
5,705 accidents with 4,062 injuries and 750 deaths.
total property damage $39,185,172
out of 750 fatalities, 591 were not wearing PFD's
85% of fatalities had no known boater education
2002 fatality victim activity
fishing 224
fueling 0
racing 7
making repairs 7
diving/swimming 25
skiing/tubeing 20
whitewater 22
starting engine 3
hunting 21
not reported 326
other 98
2002 number of boats in use 13,040,726
5705 accidents
750 deaths
2002 pwc's in use 1,353,700
2,225 accidents
71 deaths
"When anybody asks me how I can best describe my forty years at sea,I mearly say,uneventful.Of course there have been winter gales,and storms and fog and the like.But in all my experience,I have never been in an accident...of any sort worth speaking about.I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea.I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort."
Edward J. Smith,1907
Captain RMS Titanic
Went to the bottom just five years later.
In 1963 there were 33 deaths per 100,000 boats
in 2002 there were 5.8 per 1000,000
2002 in the Us and territories there were (that were reported)
5,705 accidents with 4,062 injuries and 750 deaths.
total property damage $39,185,172
out of 750 fatalities, 591 were not wearing PFD's
85% of fatalities had no known boater education
2002 fatality victim activity
fishing 224
fueling 0
racing 7
making repairs 7
diving/swimming 25
skiing/tubeing 20
whitewater 22
starting engine 3
hunting 21
not reported 326
other 98
2002 number of boats in use 13,040,726
5705 accidents
750 deaths
2002 pwc's in use 1,353,700
2,225 accidents
71 deaths
"When anybody asks me how I can best describe my forty years at sea,I mearly say,uneventful.Of course there have been winter gales,and storms and fog and the like.But in all my experience,I have never been in an accident...of any sort worth speaking about.I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea.I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort."
Edward J. Smith,1907
Captain RMS Titanic
Went to the bottom just five years later.
