Whenever having fun on the water, always wear your life jacket! Wearing a U.S. Coast Guard-approved life jacket is the simplest life-saving strategy for recreational boaters.
Approximately 85 percent of drowning victims were not wearing life jackets, according to a U.S. Coast Guard summary of 2022 recreational boating statistics.
Boating accidents can happen too fast to reach for stowed life jackets, so boaters should always prepare for the unexpected by wearing a life jacket while aboard a watercraft.
An adult can drown in 60 seconds, and it can take a strong swimmer several minutes to put on a life jacket after entering the water, especially if the jackets are stowed away.
(U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District video by Michel Sauret)
| Date Taken: | 07.26.2024 |
| Date Posted: | 07.26.2024 09:33 |
| Category: | PSA |
| Video ID: | 931848 |
| VIRIN: | 240726-A-TI382-5424 |
| Filename: | DOD_110465906 |
| Length: | 00:00:32 |
| Location: | PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, US |
| Downloads: | 3 |
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