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"All Stop", Before It's Too Late!

By the close of the Independence Day children to the hospital. (Failure to

weekend, SML power craft operators assess and prevent risk to life. Towing
racked up more safety incidents than along and around docks. Inability
they did in all of 2020 combined, and to control a tube's swing, especially

the number of incidents keep rising as overloaded. If the number of people on
summer wanes and fall begins. This is a jet ski plus the number being towed
unprecedented, and should have every is more than the designed capacity of
lake user concerned and alert. the jet ski you do not have full authority
of the jet ski. You are overloaded and
To highlight but a few of these risks to
subject to fine.)
"life and limb";
- In two separate incidents, jet skis
- An overloaded jet ski towing a tube
collided with power craft while trying
without a spotter slung three children
to maneuver in the larger craft's wake.
into a dock. and the rear end of the
In one case, the jet ski operator impaled
boat hanging in the cradle sending the
themselves into the pleasure craft. In

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