Coast Guard Auxiliary Reports

James Kenny accepting award.

This past weekend, Flotilla 12 held our monthly business meeting. In addition to ongoing conversations on safe boating and hurricane preparedness, we got to celebrate James Kenny in receiving recognition for completing the Auxiliary Leadership Class.
The Coast Guard recently released their summary of the2022 recreational boating statistics.  
The data also shows that in 2022:
• The fatality rate was 5.4 deaths per 100,000 registered recreational vessels. This rate represents a 1.8 percent decrease from last year’s fatality rate of 5.5 deaths per 100,000 registered recreational vessels. (In 1971, when the Safe Boating Act was first passed, the fatality rate was 20.6 deaths per 100,000 registered recreational vessels.)
• Property damage totaled $63 million.
• Operator inattention, operator inexperience, improper lookout, excessive speed, and machinery failure ranked as the top five primary contributing factors in accidents.
• Where the cause of death was known, 75% of fatal boating incident victims drowned. Of those drowning victims with reported life jacket usage, 85% were not wearing a life jacket.
We will continue to highlight these statistics in the coming weeks. Safe Boating is everyone’s responsibility. The trends are moving in the right direction and we want to continue to see these numbers decreasing.
Thanks to Sherrie, we will always remember safe boating is no accident!

If you would like to learn more about vessel safety checks, please contact Steve Hults, Staff Officer for Vessel Examinations at steve.hults@uscgaux.net.

Please contact us for more information about our safe boating classes or learning more about getting involved in the Auxiliary, check out our website at www.uscgaux.net follow us on FaceBook @ Apalachee Bay Flotilla 12 or contact our Flotilla Commander Phil Hill at pnkkhill2000@yahoo.com.

Please contact us to learn more about getting involved in the Auxiliary, check out our website at www.uscgaux.net follow us on FaceBook @ Apalachee Bay Flotilla 12 or contact our Flotilla Commander Phil Hill at pnkkhill2000@yahoo.com

The Coast Guard Auxiliary is the uniformed civilian volunteer component of the U.S. Coast Guard and supports the Coast Guard in nearly all mission areas. The Auxiliary was created by Congress in 1939. For more information, please visit www.cgaux.org.