Waterways are second to only highways when it comes to accidental deaths.
Alcohol is a major contributing factor in recreational boating casualties. A boat operator with a blood alcohol concentration above .10 is ten times more likely to be killed in a boating accident than a boater with zero blood alcohol concentration. Alcohol effects your balance, vision, judgment and coordination. Research has shown that alcohol, combined with boating stressors, such as sun, wind, noise, vibration and motion, can impair a person much faster than alcohol consumption on land. Passengers are also at risk -more than half of all boating fatalities are the result of a boater falling overboard, not operator error.