The 2009 theme for National Safe Boating Week is "Wear It," aimed at getting boaters to wear their life jackets. According to U.S. Coast Guard stats, nearly 9 of every 10 boating deaths involved boaters not wearing their life jackets.
To learn more about the program and to have some fun in the process, click this link
http://www.safeboatingcampaign.com/. If your life has been saved by wearing a life jacket, enter the 2009 "Be a Survivor" Contest for a chance to win big bucks, or upload a zany photo of yourself into various life jacket templates. Also, Kids can test their skills playing a Safe Boating game.
If you are visiting the area and need a life jacket, all of Old Port Cove Holdings marina's have loaner lifejackets as part of Boat U.S.'s lifejacket loaner program. For a complete list of loaner locations, click here:
http://www.boatus.com/foundation/LJLP/.
Please share your life jacket stories with us on our blog.
Get out and enjoy the water. Safe boating!
From the Old Port Cove Holdings, Inc. Team
