RE: RC Boat Fatalities - News stories. PLEASE BE SAFE (updated 2-8-2011
All these stories are sad, but it's human nature that people will always try to save a boat, dog or person in danger.
How can you protect everyone. Even serious well equipped divers get caught out. During the french Marblehead championships in Toulon a member of the SNSM lifeboat crew died trying to recover a race boat. It was mid-May in the Mediterranean but the water was unseasonably cold, and although only in his early forties he suffered a heart crisis. Two other divers in the region died the same weekend in regular dive club activities.
Imagine the risk to children and the inexperienced.
Jerry