Drinking & Boating
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Think popping a cold one on a hot summer day aboard a boat won’t affect you the same as if you were behind the wheel of car? Think again.
Alcohol has three times the effect on water that it has on dry ground.
Boating Safety Educator, Jack Dyess, says combining alcohol with the movement of a boat on water and the flickering light on the water’s surface makes for a potentially dangerous combination.
Because the constant motion that most of us are not accustomed to on a normal basis…and any changes to our environment, when we add alcohol to it, it’s going to have a greater effect. I think anyone with reasonable intelligence that gives any serious thought to the subject understands that boating and drinking is dangerous.
Operating a boat while intoxicated could result in a fine of up to 2-thousand dollars and up to 180 days in jail. A second conviction and the fine goes up to 4-thousand dollars and up to a year in jail. While third-time offenders get hit with a fine up to 10 grand and up to 10 years in jail. Coming up on tomorrow’s show…
Everyone on the water needs to obey the boating laws…and the only way to know the law is take the boater education class.
That’s our show for today….with support form 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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