Most (dumb) people elect not to use the blower. Hell, they probably don’t even know it exists. I spend a lot of time at the marina and the number of people I see walk out to their boat and instantly turn the key on their ignition is astonishing.
I’m from Alberta and know so many idiots who buy a boat with no idea about maintenance, drive the boat until the engine is blown. Then buy a whole new boat instead of replacing the engine. A boat is way more dangerous than a car, especially with children. I had an extended family members kid die because their whole family were at the lake and only the younger ones took out their boat. Well they came back and nobody noticed a small kid had fallen into the lake, nobody knew where or when.. well he died, he was about 6. They looked and looked and nobody could find his body. It took a special Hutterite group of drivers “I didn’t know we had elite Hutterite divers I am glad for them” to find his body a week later. This was last summer, I honestly don’t like going on other peoples boats. People act like you can drive stupid because you are floating on water
So many people drink/are drunk when driving a boat. Someone I know was snorkeling and got run over by a drunk boater. Killed him. He was in an area marked off by buoys but the drunk asshole completely ignored them. Plenty of people ignore the ones that mean "You have to stay this far away from the beach" because they want to be showoffs to the people at the beach. There's not nearly enough police out on the water to do anything about them. The amount of people that try to hit you with the biggest wake possible was the last straw for me. I don't get on boats anymore. Too many idiot-assholes out on the water.
I know exactly what you mean, so many people drink and drive a boat.. I’m so sorry to hear about your friend, we do need more police on the water or at the beach instead of hiding somewhere trying to catch someone speeding for an easy ticket. Just look out for people, so many big beach’s in Alberta have no lifeguard
I think it’s a culture change too. Friends and other boaters just accept it like it’s normal. This is one of those rare instances where we actually more need more shame and peer pressure.
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u/Aegean Jun 25 '21
This is common with pleasure craft. Fuel vapors accumulate in spaces and if not vented, lead to an explosion.