Boater Education
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife and the Sport Fish Restoration Program
It continues to amaze boating safety educator, Jack Dyess that so many people who boat in Texas think they know the state’s boating laws.
When they are stopped by a water safety enforcement officer for some violation, their first response is “I didn’t know that.” That’s probably true; they didn’t know that…because they don’t know the boating laws.
Dyess says people think that just because they have a license to drive a car, they know everything there is to know about driving a boat.
It’s ridiculous to think that if you know the automobile laws you also know the boating laws…you can’t obey laws that you don’t know anything about.
Texas Parks and Wildlife offers boating safety courses statewide to familiarize everyone with boating laws, navigation rules, docking, anchoring and even handling accidents and emergencies aboard a vessel.
It’s in a classroom, you may take it through the internet, or you can take it through a home study course.
To find a class near you, log on to passporttotexas.org.
That’s our show for today…with support from the Sport Fish Restoration Program…working to increase fishing and boating opportunities in Texas…
For Texas Parks and Wildlife, I’m Cecilia Nasti.
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