D.C. Memorial Day Weekend started the summer boating season with an anticipated 80 million boaters on the water. While only 27 percent of these boaters wear life jackets, many tragedies are preventable.
Life jackets can be the determining factor between life and death in many boating safety accidents.
Each year between 700 and 800 people die in boating-related accidents and 9 of every 10 victims were NOT wearing a life jacket. In an effort to combat these statistics, the National Safe Boating Council, has partnered with the U.S. Coast Guard and the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators and other boating organizations, for the 3rd annual North American Safe Boating Campaign. Wear Your Life Jacket. Click on any link below for more information.