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Originally Posted by Knomad
LIforrelaxin:
I agree that there are many factors that influence the reduction in reported accidents, however I don't understand your comment about the "flawed" Boaters Education Course that "leaves a lot to be desired".
Can you please elaborate?
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Why do I say the current Safe Boaters Education Course is Flawed, and leaves a lot to be desired??? That easy...
1. Nothing helps people learn better then experience!!!!
2. People take this course and are left with the feeling that they are "Licensed" to operate a boat. I don't blame the State for this, or the course... it is just how most people feel afterwards... the don't capture the fact that all the course is, is a lesson on safety, and protocol.
3. This course is taught in a class room. With the examine happening at the conclusion of the course. In short there is no proof of memory retention of the facts taught in the course.
4. Being taught only in a class room, leave no possibility of experiencing real world situations, in real time, when you must re-act to a set of circumstances.
The bottom line is having to get a Safe Boating Certificate, is nothing more the a way to satisfy and calm the masses that pushed for tougher regulations on the water. While it has helped in some respects, I still see way to many boaters on the water, that don't have a clue as to what they are doing.... For instance this weekend I watched a cruiser come into NO-WAKE Zone in front of trexlers, running on plane, and not slowing until they where well past the no-wake marker. In the last two years, I have not had a boat correctly yield the right of way, and I can go on and on, but I will get off my soap box...