This is the 10th boating-related fatality on Tennessee waters this year. Just wear it!

[nso123]

My little boy is my fishing partner. I wear an inflatable all the time when we are out. I can’t imagine something happening to me and suddenly I’m in the water and him having to deal with it. I owe it to him to be as safe as I can. 

[Bankc]

On 5/27/2022 at 3:24 PM, detroit1 said:

Maybe it's time for the pro-organizations require to wear whenever in the boat, not just under main power. Trickle-down effect?

I've been saying this for years.  If you see the pros do it growing up, then you grow up wanting to do the same.  It'll save the lives of many children, and adults.  It's effects on the general population may not be immediate, but in a generation or two, countless lives will be saved.  

 

19 hours ago, A kid from Canada said:

Not wearing a life jacket doest put others at risk. People should have the freedom to make their own decisions and deal with the risks. 

Actually, it does.  A friend of mine's father drowned while saving a child who was drowning and not wearing her PFD.  He jumped in after her from the bank and swam over to her, fully dressed.  Somehow he managed to find her, swim her back to the dock, but when he went to lift her up to some people on the dock, he went under and never came back up.  

 

Also, my brother in law who's in law enforcement, is on the Dive Team.  And diving in a deep lake with no visibility is extremely dangerous.  So every time he gets called out to recover a body, he's putting his life at risk.  

[BassNJake]

I'm a pretty good swimmer in the summertime in my swim shorts

I'm like a lead weight when fully clothed with shoes on trying to make the same swim

The current is like black ice, once you hit it you lose control

 

 

 

[soflabasser]

11 hours ago, BassNJake said:

I'm a pretty good swimmer in the summertime in my swim shorts

I'm like a lead weight when fully clothed with shoes on trying to make the same swim

The current is like black ice, once you hit it you lose control

 

 

 

I am an extremely good swimmer, and I will never fish with a person that speeds on a boat. Speeding in a boat in a small body of water, or a place with a lot of boaters is one of the dumbest things anyone can do. The best of the best swimmers can easily drown if a boat flips, sadly there seems to be a percentage of boaters that think they are invincible. For example, there are clowns that speed in the narrow canals of the Everglades, these canals often have sudden depth changes with a rocky bottom, and these canals are often loaded with boaters, yet these clowns still speed. People will do whatever they want, regardless of the good advice you give them.