What Floats Your Boaters? – A Commentary

What Floats Your Boaters? – A Commentary

Florida has over one million registered boaters not including the plethora of canoes and other paddle craft for which registration is not required. Whereas wearing a seatbelt in a car is regulated by law and has become a routine practice for the majority of Floridians, wearing a personal floatation...

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Main Author: Mary Martinasek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of North Florida 2009-04-01
Series:Florida Public Health Review
Online Access:https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1094&context=fphr
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spelling doaj-2c0ffbf9bf0345b484898ef156f5394c2020-11-25T02:06:29ZengUniversity of North FloridaFlorida Public Health Review2643-62482009-04-0164849What Floats Your Boaters? – A CommentaryMary Martinasek0Department of Community and Family Health, University of South Florida College of Public HealthFlorida has over one million registered boaters not including the plethora of canoes and other paddle craft for which registration is not required. Whereas wearing a seatbelt in a car is regulated by law and has become a routine practice for the majority of Floridians, wearing a personal floatation device (PFD) while boating is neither mandatory nor routine. Florida has ranked first annually among states in boating fatalities since 2003, and accounted for 10.9% of the total number of U.S. boating deaths in 2006. This commentary argues for making PFD use mandatory in an environment where the social norm is absence of use.https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1094&context=fphr
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description Florida has over one million registered boaters not including the plethora of canoes and other paddle craft for which registration is not required. Whereas wearing a seatbelt in a car is regulated by law and has become a routine practice for the majority of Floridians, wearing a personal floatation device (PFD) while boating is neither mandatory nor routine. Florida has ranked first annually among states in boating fatalities since 2003, and accounted for 10.9% of the total number of U.S. boating deaths in 2006. This commentary argues for making PFD use mandatory in an environment where the social norm is absence of use.
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