A colletion of safety links including boat safety courses, laws, tips, insurance, emergency information, how to tips, marine communication, navigation rules, and more.
From your About.com Guide, prevent confusion and communicate effectively with your skiers on the water by using these signals.
Here's how to pick up a water-skier or wakeboarder after they have fallen or are done with their run.
Waterskiing and wakeboarding in Cold Weather / Water. Avoid hypothermia and frostbite, and practice the 100 degree rule. About Sports Waterskiing/ Wakeboarding.
Here's how keep your body warm while skiing / boarding on a cold day to avoid frostbite or hypothermia.
From your About.com Guide, avoid trouble and get the facts before you hit the water.
Can't participate in watersports without your glasses or contacts? Try these options to clear your vision behind the boat. Includes prescription goggles, surgery, soft contacts, and more.
Teak surfing is growing in popularity and is performed by surfing by hanging on the swim platform (teak) on the back of a boat. The danger comes in as this is the area of the boat in which is filled with potentially deadly carbon monoxide and more and more people are dying as a result on inhaling the fumes.
Have you ever tried shouting across a small lake? Easy, isn’t it? How about when you’ve been waterskiing, and try to get the attention of the tow boat? Found it impossible, didn’t you? This article by the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary offers tips on how to better communicate across water.
Site created this to enhance the education and safety of all recreational boaters in Canada. Get your pleasure craft operator card here. Take the online test.
Good manners that pay off on the water, from boats.com.
Boater's safety checklist, rules and regulations, marina listing, news, navigation, and much more, from Sea Tow.
Having boat insurance can help calm the waters if an accident occurs, from BoatSafe.com
Boating safety information and online boating courses. Includes boating tips, boating contest, quizzes, and more.
Great site for kids to get acquainted with boating and the water. Lots of question / answer topics and boat terms.
Take as much time as necessary to complete the course. Review their online study guide before answering the 50 question test on boating basics.
Daily tips, polls, boating regulations, articles, boater's checklist, and much more.
Everything you need to know to make sure you do not break the law. Information from boating under the influence to PFD requirements. From the U.S. Coast Guard.
Maritime attorney Tim Akpinar provides legal counsel on many issues involved in boating, waterskiing, and other marine activities. Free consults.
Do you like to go boating but can't because you get motion sickness? This band is a drug-free remedy for treatment of nausea and vomiting due to motion sickness.
Whether you are a new boater or need to brush up on your skills, try this online basic boating safety certification course. You can progress at your own pace and on your own time schedule.
Learn what to do when meeting, overtaking, or crossing another boat. Running light, sound blasting, and illustrations available, some with animation, from Boatsafe.com.
From Commander Bob, use this list as a safety guideline before leaving dock.
Tips on how to prepare your boat from a hurricane, from BoatSafe.com.
Free towing and jump start for members. Find a Sea Tow location near you, browse marine weather, check the tides, and more.
From Sea Ray's Dockbox, this a listing of things to be aware of while boating to make your outings safe.
If you are interested in taking a safe boating course, this is a listing of contact telephone numbers by region.
Tips on how to protect yourself from the sun. The first in a series of "Sea Doc Tip," from BoatSafe.com.
A three-part series outlining the proper way to use a VHF marine radio, from Sea Tow.
This page will give you some safety ideas to do with the boat, first aid, equipment and general water awareness. From Waterski-az.co.uk.
