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The Marine Sheriff's Update fatalities, Sergeant Berg said the
majority of these happen while
I visited with Sergeant Don Berg of the boats are anchored, swimming
St. Clair County Sheriff Marine Division and diving accidents, and sadly
to get a better understanding of what these a lot could have been avoided
guys and gals do... and, they do a lot more because were caused from drink-
than drive around in their cool boats. ing too much... Like a young man
who drowned in only 2' of water
To start with the things you expect they while walking then fell in Mus-
do, keeping boaters safe does take a lot of camoot and didn't get up during
their time. Unfortunately, there were eight the Raft Off.
water related fatalities in 2012, up from the
year before. With "boat” related (not PWC) I would have thought Jobbie

Biggest Ticket Area for Boaters.... Nooner to and their inability to reach someone in
have the most distress quickly. Most problems occur in
“Tickets can be handed out all day on the Middle accidents, Muscamoot Bay. One of the biggest re-
Channel on the stretch in front of Brown’s Restaurant”, however, the sponses each year are for assaults... basi-
says Sergeant Berg. There is a mile or so of waterway Raft Off has cally boaters getting mad and beating each
now surpassed other up. Another incident this past year,
that requires boats 26’ and over to have “no wake.” this event due maybe partly due to the low water level...
to the difficul- Sergeant Berg was idling near the entrance
26’ and under can maintain their speed, but they have to ty the Sheriff of Muscamoot Bay one Saturday, when a
be 200 feet from the shoreline... and this area is fairly has assisting "go fast" boat came quickly into the bay,
narrow...so probably best for everyone to do a no wake boater's in was probably trying to show off, made too
peril because sharp of a turn, probably hit bottom, and
if there is a lot of boat traffic.” of the boats all all the passengers were ejected from the
See the “No Wake Zone” charts to review on page 9. tied together boat. Luckily, he was close by to assist and
no one was killed. Continued on Page 52

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