A woman in her 50s found floating in Mission Bay on the night of September 15, 2010, was rescued by paramedics. The woman was boating with her friends near Quivira Way towards the south end of Mission Bay. It took the paramedics 15 minutes before they found the woman floating in the water.
The body of a fourth man involved in a Marin County boating accident was recovered on July 16, 2010. According to Flight Technical Officer, the Sonoma County Sherriff’s helicopter received a call around 2:01 p.m. that a body was found near 10 Mile Beach close to Point Reyes. A 3-person recovery team passed the recovered body to the rangers where the Point Reyes National Seashore took the custody.
Matthew P. Fortin of Rhode Island has been charged with drunken driving of a boat when his speeding boat caused the death of two women. It appears that, under the influence of alcohol, Fortin was negligent and hit another boat that was carrying these two women. He has been charged with five felony counts related to the boating accident. However, no criminal charge or monetary compensation could ever make up for the harm caused by Fortin’s carelessness.
Abby Sunderland, a 16-year old teenager from California, was rescued on June 19, 2010 from her broken boat drifting in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Despite her familiarity with the water and sailing, high winds and rough water damaged the mast of her vessel leaving her boat adrift in the ocean. Her radio transmitter was also damaged, making it difficult for her request help.
Two children sustained injuries in Destin, Florida, when a parasail line broke and the children in the parasail fell away to the water below. At the time when this boating accident occurred, the parasail boat was being pulled in due to unfriendly weather conditions.
A 33 year-old man, Matthew Bankes was injured in a boat accident on June 5, 2010 at 5:15 p.m along the Mississippi river south of Brownsville, Minnesota. According to the press release made by the Houston County Sherriff’s Officel, Bankes fell out of the boat that he was riding and was then struck by it.
A man, between 60 to 65 years old, was killed in Millerton Lake on May 26, 2010 when his boat crashed into a rocky shoreline on the Madera side of the lake. This boating accident occurred at Gold Bay at around 1:45 p.m. A resident of the Hidden Lake Estates called 911 and reported an unconscious man bleeding profusely by his wrecked boat.
Luke Nelson, 5-years old, of Riverside County died in a boating accident on May 23, 2010, around 2:41p.m. in Lake Elsinore close to Crane Lakeside Recreational Vehicle Park when the watercraft he was riding in was overturned due to windy waters.
Alcohol is one of the factors which can lead to accidents—not just on the road but also while boating and enjoying the water. A 28-year old woman was seriously injured in a jet ski accident that took place on April 3, 2010 at Destin, Florida, which involved the use of alcohol.
Two men lost their lives in a boat accident that took place on April 10, 2010 on the Allegheny River near Harmar, Pennsylvania.