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Updates Expected to South Florida Maritime Charts After Irma

When Hurricane Irma rolled across the Florida Keys this fall, it wasn’t just the motels and marinas, Tom Thumbs, stilt houses and shell shacks strung along the island chain that got slammed. A handwritten sign of encouragement to the Florida …

Arrowhead Marine Program Wants Your Summer Boating Season Business

San Diego, CA, 06/20/2012 – With summer officially starting today and the boating season already underway, the Marine Program at Arrowhead General Insurance Agency, Inc. is pleased to offer its producers a team of boating insurance experts who are licensed …

With 18, Wisconsin Ties Boating Fatalities from 2010

Wisconsin has already matched the 18 watercraft-related deaths reported last year and the summer isn’t even over. Jeremy Cords, a safety expert with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, tells the Green Bay Press-Gazette that too few life jackets and …

Search for Man in North Texas After Motor Boat Hits Kayaks

A nighttime collision involving a motor boat and three kayaks on a North Texas lake has left one person missing and another hurt. Rescue crews Tuesday resumed the search for the kayaker missing on Eagle Mountain Lake. Azle Fire Department …

New Jersey Boating Deaths Rise in 2010

Coast Guard figures show New Jersey bucked a national trend of record low recreational boating deaths in 2010. Eight people died in boating accidents in the Garden State last year, two more than in 2009. There have been no deaths …

Tennessee Appeals Court Disagrees with Judge Shopping Ruling

A Tennessee appeals court has reinstated an indictment in a drunken boating case, saying the defendant’s rights were not violated by judge shopping in Chattanooga. The Court of Criminal Appeals this week reinstated an indictment for boating under the influence …

Boaters Beware of Flying Gulf Sturgeon

Boaters beware. It’s flying fish season. Wildlife officials are reminding boaters that Gulf sturgeon as long as 8 feet and weighing 200 pounds are migrating into the Suwannee River this month. Sturgeon, with hard cartilaginous backbone and scales on the …