Kids running around in the tender wearing lifejackets?

[l'escargot]

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...There are times for not wearing a PBA, but mucking around in a dink in cold water is NOT one of them.

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I don't see that those figures support that view. They would suggest that children would be better protected wearing a lifejacket when swimming off the beach, in a pool or by a river.

 

[cliffordpope]

It's a llittle known fact that more people drown in the Sahara desert than die of thirst. The reason is that everyone knows there is very little water, so carries water bottles. But quite a lot of people slip into unstable wells as the sand walls collapse.

But shockingly, very few Bedouin children wear lifejackets.

 

[nicho]

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I have just spent a very pleasant weekend in Yarmouth at the old gaffers rally, I was amazed by the number of kids running around the harbour in tenders with outboards not wearing lifejackets!

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It was the same when we were there a couple of weeks ago - often these dinghies are overloaded too. I'm surprised the harbour berthing guys that drive around all day in their dorys don't say something to their parents.

Also witnessed a 30' motor boat leave late afternoon with the 5 on board so drunk they could barely stand, with one falling in as they cast off (no lifejackets in sight). Despite the pleas of various other boaters to stay and sleep it off. they set off for Southampton. Several felt like shooping them, but I don't think anyone did. Presumably they made it.

 

[WindFinder]

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Also witnessed a 30' motor boat leave late afternoon with the 5 on board so drunk they could barely stand, with one falling in as they cast off (no lifejackets in sight).

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So he must have died, right?

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Several felt like shooping them, but I don't think anyone did.

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Shooping them in to who, for what?

 

[yoty]

2 things!

A chap died up the Tamar river last week when he fell out of the dinghy trying to catch a bag and (brace yourselves),

I used to have a berth next to a dive boat in Haslar. One day the boat came in with the owner looking a bit wane. He had been motoring up the small boat channel when he found a kid in the water. He, the child, had fallen of the swimming platform of a mobo while the parents were not looking. The mobo was still chugging up the harbour somewhere - but the kid was wearing a lifejacket...

 

[WindFinder]

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I have just spent a very pleasant weekend in Yarmouth at the old gaffers rally, I was amazed by the number of kids running around the harbour in tenders with outboards not wearing lifejackets!

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My god.

Thank christ you weren't out today.

I counted 15 people from about 4 to about 70 in the water. No wetsuits, no LJ's.

I myself spent 6 HOURS in the water with only a 4mm shortie between me and certain death.

Russian Roulette?

I don't think so.