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CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
IN THE MATTER OF }
DECLARING THE WEEK j
OF MAY 22-28, 1999 AS RESOLUTION NO. 99/247
BOATING SAFETY IN )
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY)
WHEREAS, more Americans than ever before are heading to waterways for
recreation and relaxation as opportunities for on-the-water activities expand each
year. With this growth Comes additional responsibility. It is essential that both
novice and experienced boaters practice boating habits, such as wearing a life
jacket.
WHEREAS,this year's theme for the 1999 National Safe Boating Campaign,
Your ife Jacket. Boat Smart From the Start!"recognizes that boating safety begins
long before your boat leaves the dock.
WHEREAS, recent year averages indicate approximately 88 percent of the people
who drowned in boat accidents were not wearing a life jacket, and
WHEREAS, when you leave for a day of boating, you seldom expect to
unintentionally end up in the water. But if you do happen to fall overboard or
Capsize and are not wearing your life jacket, you greatly increase your chance of
becoming a boating statistic, and
WHEREAS, in recognizing that hundreds of lives could be sawed each year by
wearing life jackets--life jackets that are more Comfortable,more attractive and more
wearable than styles of years past; and
WHEREAS, the law rewires that wearable life jackets be carried for each person
on board a boat and little effort is put forth in wearing those life jackets;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE
COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA, RESOLVED that we hereby support the goals of
the National Safe Boating Campaign and proclaim May 22-28, 1999, as National
Safe Boating Week and the start of the year-round effort to promote safe boating
in Contra Costa County, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we urge all those
who boat to"Boat Smart From The Start"by wearing their life jacket and practicing
safe boosting habits.
PASSED by unanimous vete of the Board members present on this 1 e day of May,
1999.
1 hereby Certify that this is a true and Correct copy of an order entered on the
minutes of said Board of Supervisors on the date aforesaid.
Witness my hand and the Seal of the Board of
Supervisors affixed on this 18'"day of May, 1999.
PHIL BATCHELOtq, Clerk of the Board of
Supervisors and County Administrator.
By: Q=V�=J- Z6�u�'
Deputy Cleric
RESOLUTION NO. 99/247
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Capsizing
(496' 245 226
Collision w/fid object 623 56 329
Collision w/$case ob'ect 204 13 80
Collision W/vessel 21581 80 1,309
ball in boat 319 6 332
Falls overboard 669 243 465
Fire/explosion(fuel) 180 0 76
Fire%cplosion(besides fisc!) 78 2 8
Flooding/swamping 32,2 42 67
is Grounding 383 15 217
Not reported 59 11 37
Other 1,136 60 651
Sinking 177 23 35
a Skier mishap 445 8 44. 4
Starting engine 1 0 1
Struck by boat 133 8 123
Struck by motor/ ropeller 123 1 126
s �► Struck submerged object 135 6 29
> <* TOTAL 8,044 819 4,555
• The vast majority of boating accidents are caused by human error and not by the
boat,equipment or environmental factors.
• More than 60%of boating fatalities result from capsizing,Ming overboard or
flooding/swumping. It was the sudden and unexpected in-water experience that
turned into a fatal situation. Tao you think wearing a life jacket could have helped?
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