Boating Safety
Before You Need It
Lifejackets, navigation lights, distress signals, fire, man overboard and weather — the seven systems that bring a crew home, in one field manual.
Most boating accidents don't happen in storms. They happen on bright, flat afternoons — to people who simply believed they had time. They didn't.
Every safety system aboard is a conversation you have before the emergency, never during it. You don't read about your lifejacket while you're in the water, or learn the Mayday format while the cabin fills with smoke. This guide gathers the seven systems that decide who comes home — written to be read calmly now and recalled instantly later. In the most recent USCG data, 87% of boating drowning victims weren't wearing a lifejacket, and almost all of those deaths were preventable.
What's inside the guide- Lifejackets & PFDs — the five types, correct fit, and exactly what the law requires aboard
- Navigation lights & rules of the road — who you are after dark, and who gives way
- Buoys & markers (IALA-B) — reading the channel: red, right, returning
- Distress signals & the Mayday call — the DSC procedure and a word-for-word radio script
- Fire, man overboard & weather — plus a pre-departure checklist and quick-reference card
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