DNR Reminds Boaters to Wear a Life Jacket

Thursday, September 2nd, 2021 -- 8:04 AM

(Bob Hague, WRN) Labor Day is a big boating weekend, and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources wants you to wear a life jacket on the water.

Nineteen people have died in boating accidents in Wisconsin in 2021. Another 22 died in 2020. Operator inexperience, inattention, recklessness and speeding are the four leading causes of watercraft crashes, and the leading cause of death is drowning.

The majority of people who drown in boating accidents know how to swim but become incapacitated in the water because they're injured or unconscious, exhausted or weighed down by clothing.

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