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1. How to File a Personal Watercraft Insurance Claim in Florida In the case of collision, accident, or other casualty involving a vessel in or upon or entering into or exiting from the water, including capsizing, collision with another vessel or object, sinking, personal injury requiring medical treatment beyond immediate first aid, death, disappearance of any person from on board under circumstances which indicate the possibility […]...
2. El Capitan is the only lake in San Diego County that allows the use of personal watercraft El Capitan is the only lake in San Diego County that allows the use of personal watercraft...
3. Jet Ski and Boating Accidents Help in Florida The operator of a vessel involved in a boating accident where there is personal injury beyond immediate first-aid, death, disappearance of any person under circumstances which indicate death or injury, or if there is damage to the vessel(s) and/or personal property of at least $2,000, must, by the quickest means possible, give notice to one […]...
4. PWC Steering Difficulties Steering difficulties were evident in many of the PWC accident reports examined for the study.22 For example, a 15-year-old male was operating a PWC and his mother was a passenger. The Florida Marine Patrol accident description states, “[Operator] was attempting to make a turn south through a cut in the mangroves . . . . […]...
5. Florida Boat and JEt SKi Vessel Registration All vessels, with the exception of non-motor-powered vessels less than 16 feet in length, non-motor-powered canoes, kayaks, racing shells, or rowing sculls, regardless of length, must be registered through your local Tax Collector’s Office. Letters must be separated from the numbers by a hyphen or space equal to letter width. The Certificate of Registration must […]...
6. How to File a Personal Watercraft Insurance Claim in the State of Florida In the case of collision, accident, or other casualty involving a vessel in or upon or entering into or exiting from the water, including capsizing, collision with another vessel or object, sinking, personal injury requiring medical treatment beyond immediate first aid, death, disappearance of any person from on board under circumstances which indicate the possibility […]...
7. Personal Watercraft, How to Transfer Title in Florida If the titled ownership of an undocumented vessel is transferred from one individual to another, an application for transfer of ownership must be filed with the county tax collector within 30 days along with a fee of $5.25. The purchaser or transferee shall be charged an additional $10 fee if the title transfer application is […]...
8. Personal Watercraft, PWC History Personal watercraft are a type of recreational boat designed for riding entertainment (figure 1–3). Because PWC are powered by an engine and intended for the transport of person(s) on water, they fall within the Coast Guard category for motorboats. Although the Coast Guard tracks statistics on a recreational vessel type (Class A inboard motorboat) that […]...
9. Marine Index Bureau (MIB), PWC, Coast Guard During 1992–93, the Marine Index Bureau (MIB) Foundation conducted a study of boating accidents based on data from boating claims submitted to insurance companies. 10 Of the 104 identified insurers, MIB sampled data from 13 insurers that accounted for 61 percent of the total insured boating population at that time. For 1992, MIB estimated that […]...
10. PWC Study to More Closely Examine Fatalities The Safety Board initiated the current study to more closely examine fatalities and injury in addition to accident characteristics associated with PWC accidents. The study was not designed to estimate how often PWC accidents occur. For PWC accidents that occurred between January and June 1997, the Safety Board requested that State marine accident investigators provide […]...
11. PWC Driver Lossess Control On June 29, 1997, a 25-year-old male lost control of a rented personal watercraft (PWC)1 while operating at Four Bear Water Park near Shelby Township, Michigan. The vessel entered a lifeguard-supervised swimming area and struck six children, ages 5 to 12. It hit a seventh person on the beach before coming to a stop. One […]...
12. No person shall sell, assign or transfer a vessel titled by the State of Florida without delivering to the purchaser or transferee a valid certificate of title with an assignment on it showing transfer of title to the purchaser or transferee. No person shall sell, assign or transfer a vessel titled by the State of Florida without delivering to the purchaser or transferee a valid certificate of title with an assignment on it showing transfer of title to the purchaser or transferee. No person shall purchase or otherwise acquire a vessel required to be titled by […]...
13. How to Register a PWC in California? Generally, every sail-powered vessel over eight feet in length and every motor-driven vessel (regardless of length) that is not documented by the U.S. Coast Guard which is used or on the waters of this state are subject to registration by the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). The vessel must be located in California. Vessels previously […]...
14. PWC Insurance Safety, Boating Fatalities Declining Although the number of recreational boating fatalities has been declining, the number of PWC-related fatalities has been increasing (table 1–1, and figures 1–1 and 1–2). The increase in PWC fatalities is proportional to the increase of PWC in operation. Coast Guard information indicates that 8,005 recreational boating accidents were reported for 1996, of which 2,868 […]...
15. Enforcement of Minnesota’s PWC and water safety laws rests with the DNR’s conservation officers and the county sheriffs Enforcement of Minnesota’s boat and water safety laws rests with the DNR’s conservation officers and the county sheriffs....