Table 4-5
Personal Flotation Devices (PFDs) and Drownings in Recreational
Boating Accidents, 2000
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| Auxiliary sail |
0 |
12 |
12 |
| Cabin motorboat |
5 |
27 |
32 |
| Canoe/kayak |
28 |
65 |
93 |
| Houseboat |
0 |
7 |
7 |
| Inflatable |
7 |
8 |
15 |
| Open motorboat |
19 |
261 |
280 |
| Other |
0 |
9 |
9 |
| Personal watercraft |
13 |
11 |
24 |
| Pontoon |
0 |
3 |
3 |
| Rowboat |
1 |
34 |
35 |
| Sail (only) |
1 |
4 |
4 |
| Total |
74 |
445 |
519 |
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Coast Guard, Office of Boating
Safety, Boating Statistics - 2000, available at http://www.uscgboating.org/saf/pdf/boating_statistics_2000.pdf
as of October 2001.
- Life jackets and other PFDs can reduce loss of life in boating accidents.
- 86 percent of the people who drowned in recreational boating accidents in
2000 were not using PFDs.
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