RickB
Scraping Paint
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- Oct 20, 2007
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- Vessel Make
- CHB 48 Zodiac YL 4.2
It appears to be accepted nothing will be reliable every time ...
That is my view.
The other way to look at it is that the "vast majority" of injuries or fatalities occur on small open boats - like a 12 foot aluminum fishing boat - being used by a couple of guys on a lake or river.
I haven't bothered to look at the stats that close but a cursory review seems to support the facts that it just isn't that big a deal. Among the threats to our lives and health, getting whacked by lightning on a boat is pretty far down the list, probably below getting food poison from eating a bad squirrel.