Island Surf and Sail offers high-quality windsurfing rentals in Tortola BVI. We offer a variety of water toys, water sports equipment, safety gear and fun stuff for rent that we promise will make this vacation something really special.
The document outlines an agenda for a stand up paddleboarding event featuring presentations from experts in the field on topics like participation trends, safety regulations, and new styles of paddleboarding. The event is hosted by the American Canoe Association and various other organizations involved in water sports and aims to educate attendees on the growth of stand up paddleboarding and facilitate discussion.
Dr. Adam Katchmarchi, National Drowning Prevention Alliance: Drowning – A Hard Look at the Facts
We all love the water. Unfortunately, drowning and aquatic injury numbers remain largely unchanged in recent years in the U.S. and across the globe. We can all work together for safer water, but we must know what we are up against. This session will cover the scope of the drowning problem within the United States, current research related to water safety and drowning prevention, and how we can all work together to reduce the number of fatalities and injuries in all bodies of water. Join Dr. Adam Katchmarchi for an in-depth look at the problem we are facing, the successes we can celebrate, and the hard work we all need to do to make all bodies of water safer.
Jerry Desmond and Gwendolynn Flynn, Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection: Outreach Through Public Television
The focus of the presentation will be to inform other boating professionals from various agencies and organizations on how they can utilize the public television networks to educate the boating public on a regular basis and include numerous boating safety topics.
Robert Baldridge, U.S. Power Squadrons: Boat Live 365 (2.0)
The overall goal of the Boat Live 365 is to create a strong recreational boating safety culture nationwide. This goal is in alignment with the National Recreational Boating Safety Strategic Plan striving to reduce the number of accidents, injuries and deaths on America's waterways and to provide a safer recreational boating environment for the public. Boat Live 365 2.0 (BL 365 2.0) is a continuation of the program development and will include a website for easy content access. During Boat Live 365 1.0, the United States Power Squadrons developed content, promotional resources and playbooks for the campaign. The material was tested by select squadrons. Public and squadron feedback was used to improve the program. BL365 2.0 continues with development and adds a user-friendly website to assist organizations to create a year-round safe boating culture. Project Manager, Robert Baldridge, will provide updates on the campaign, solicit advice from stakeholders, and provide access to content.
An overview of the Canadian Safe Boating Council’s (CSBC) activities for 2017 will be provided with particular attention to our Safety First Marine project to educate marine service providers and retailers and the CSBC’s work in the far North with indigenous communities.
Island Surf and Sail offers high-quality windsurfing rentals in Tortola BVI. We offer a variety of water toys, water sports equipment, safety gear and fun stuff for rent that we promise will make this vacation something really special.
The document outlines an agenda for a stand up paddleboarding event featuring presentations from experts in the field on topics like participation trends, safety regulations, and new styles of paddleboarding. The event is hosted by the American Canoe Association and various other organizations involved in water sports and aims to educate attendees on the growth of stand up paddleboarding and facilitate discussion.
Dr. Adam Katchmarchi, National Drowning Prevention Alliance: Drowning – A Hard Look at the Facts
We all love the water. Unfortunately, drowning and aquatic injury numbers remain largely unchanged in recent years in the U.S. and across the globe. We can all work together for safer water, but we must know what we are up against. This session will cover the scope of the drowning problem within the United States, current research related to water safety and drowning prevention, and how we can all work together to reduce the number of fatalities and injuries in all bodies of water. Join Dr. Adam Katchmarchi for an in-depth look at the problem we are facing, the successes we can celebrate, and the hard work we all need to do to make all bodies of water safer.
Jerry Desmond and Gwendolynn Flynn, Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection: Outreach Through Public Television
The focus of the presentation will be to inform other boating professionals from various agencies and organizations on how they can utilize the public television networks to educate the boating public on a regular basis and include numerous boating safety topics.
Robert Baldridge, U.S. Power Squadrons: Boat Live 365 (2.0)
The overall goal of the Boat Live 365 is to create a strong recreational boating safety culture nationwide. This goal is in alignment with the National Recreational Boating Safety Strategic Plan striving to reduce the number of accidents, injuries and deaths on America's waterways and to provide a safer recreational boating environment for the public. Boat Live 365 2.0 (BL 365 2.0) is a continuation of the program development and will include a website for easy content access. During Boat Live 365 1.0, the United States Power Squadrons developed content, promotional resources and playbooks for the campaign. The material was tested by select squadrons. Public and squadron feedback was used to improve the program. BL365 2.0 continues with development and adds a user-friendly website to assist organizations to create a year-round safe boating culture. Project Manager, Robert Baldridge, will provide updates on the campaign, solicit advice from stakeholders, and provide access to content.
An overview of the Canadian Safe Boating Council’s (CSBC) activities for 2017 will be provided with particular attention to our Safety First Marine project to educate marine service providers and retailers and the CSBC’s work in the far North with indigenous communities.
This document discusses demystifying the legislative process and how to effectively communicate with lawmakers. It addresses that the legislative system can seem complex and designed not to pass new laws. It advocates using a sales process of first predisposing lawmakers to requests, then making an ask or presenting opportunities, and following up. Specifically, it recommends starting discussions based on lawmakers' perspectives, building long-term relationships over short-term information exchanges, and following up after meetings to maximize impact. The document encourages understanding the legislative system and lawmakers' needs to most effectively communicate goals.
Dr. Dan Maxim, Everest Consulting Associates: Situational Awareness
Human error is known to account for the majority of recreational boating accidents and it is time that the role of human error and relevant skills to reduce these errors is included in boating safety courses, as has happened in other transportation fields. Maintaining Situational Awareness [SA] (“knowing what is going on around you”) is one of the ways to reduce the likelihood of human error. This talk defines and explains SA, threats (attention demons) to maintaining SA (including temporal distortion, distraction, channelized attention, task saturation, expectancy, inattention, habituation, and negative transfer), clues to loss of SA, and ways to regain/maintain SA.
John Malatak, NASBLA: The Certified Recreational Boating Professional (CRBP)
Learn how you'll be able to differentiate yourself in a competitive job market. How to increase, demonstrate, and validate your skills and knowledge; achieve personal accomplishment; enhance your professional reputation, while demonstrating your high level of commitment to the national recreational boating program. Achieving the "CRBP" credential will demonstrate your competence and professional growth through continuing education, involvement and leadership.
The document discusses a grant from the National Safe Boating Council to create an education campaign targeting teens in safe boating practices. The campaign will provide on-water instruction in power boating, human propelled craft, and sailing, as well as printed materials and a social media element. Courses will be held in multiple locations with certified instructors, and students will receive completion certificates. The goal is to establish a sustainable summer boating education course for teens.
The National Safe Boating Council continues its year-round Safe Boating Campaign to address the National Recreational Boating Safety Program's priority to reduce the number of accidents, injuries, and deaths on America's waterways and provide a safe, enjoyable experience for the boating public. 2018 is an exciting year for the Safe Boating Campaign as the brand has been refreshed, including a new logo, website and other supportive materials. NSBC's Executive Director Peg Phillips and Communications Director Yvonne Pentz will unveil the new brand, share resources and answer questions on how others may support this important boating safety initiative. The session will be fun and informative, providing attendees with a thorough understanding of the campaign.
Joe Gatfield, Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons
The Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons "Safety Equipment Education and Flare Disposal Program" is a perfect example of a partnership with government and private industry to reach out to the public with boating safety awareness and environment protection all encompassed within one activity. Attendees will learn how the cooperation of volunteers, government, industry and marine chandleries can make a significant difference in boater's equipment choices and enhancement of the environment through proper disposition of pyrotechnics.
Shawn Alladio, K38: How Students Taught Me to Teach
When I first became interested in boating safety knowledge for Personal Water Craft there were no leaders or gurus in the field. There were racers and course marshals, and I knew many of them. In 1989, I embarked on working with safety clinics that turned into professional courses. Since there were no 'go to people,' I listened, I observed, and I questioned constantly in my thoughts and actions what was appropriate. I listened to professionals, even though my gut instinct told me they were wrong. Since they were lifeguards or firemen, I thought my knowledge base was inferior. Boy was I wrong. I was sent to a state boating education course. It was 40 hours. It was a near miserable experience, mainly because the instructors were so disconnected with the students we couldn't focus on the material for which we all hungered. Most were there to just get the certificate and run. Then in 1996, I went to an IBWSS Summit and there I met the Wizard of Boater Education, Mr. Virgil Chambers. I saw how a connected instructor changes the world and wakes up the sleeping student. I started over. I closely watched that to which students responded. I added what they needed to know. I balanced fair play between the two and adjusted to the personalities of each training group. Essentially, they taught me how to teach. I told them what they needed to know, I shared with them my experiences, and I focused on the foundational safety and skillsets that matter. This is not my journey or my answer, it's a collective. Many contributed to this and now when somebody tells me “we have always done it that way,” I know without flinching there is a lot of work to do to inspire an instructor and give them the foothold they need. Why? We need to mature and change, this new generation is evolving, and teaching methods are like watching snails move. We must evolve to remain in the target audience who does not have the time, the patience, nor the need to suffer through archaic and ridiculous methods of training that waste their time and hold their productivity hostage. We will begin the session with a simple question that each will write down: What is your purpose? Whatever the purpose of an instructor, the result will be productive only if the audience doesn't drift or fall asleep.
Stu Gilfillen, US Sailing, and Chris Stec, ACA: Work that Waterfront
US Sailing and the American Canoe Association have a combined network of 75,000 members and 2,000 organizations that they work with across the U.S. Learn about what programs they've seen be the most successful in different environments. They'll also identify a few select (and successful) programs that can serve as templates for how they've developed their waterfronts and leveraged key partnerships.
The document discusses plans to improve and streamline boating education standards. It proposes adopting a "CORE" and "CORE PLUS" structure to reduce redundancy across standards. Another proposal is to shift from process-focused to outcome-based standards stated in terms of what students must know and be able to do. Research suggests outcome-based training improves learning and skill retention. Near-term next steps include stakeholder input on changes, with powerboat standard renewal in 2021 providing an opportunity to implement revisions.
Scott McDonald, United States Power Squadrons: America's Boating Club Learning Centers
The United States Power Squadrons (USPS) Learning Center program, developed under a grant from the U. S. Coast Guard, establishes a network of non-profit training centers dedicated to teaching standards-based, on-water skills training. Leveraging our Hands-On Training: Basic Powerboat program, the Learning Centers will extend the USPS educational outreach and significantly increase the number of recreational boaters that receive on-water training. Teaching powerboat handling to the public on a large scale presents unique challenges. There are significant operational risks and economic issues that make it difficult to sustain such training programs. By drawing on the unique resources of USPS and leveraging relationships with our many partners, the USPS Learning Centers are seeking to break through these barriers to establish a self-sustaining program. As an added benefit, data collected by the program will provide feedback from the public and insight into strategies for the improvement of boater behavior.
Pam Dillon, NASBLA; Brian Dorval, Think First Serve; Joanne Dorval, METCOR, Ltd.
The presentation will examine the current status in the development of American National Standards for recreational boating instruction. These standards identify the core knowledge and fundamental skills education providers should build into their entry-level instructional programs. The presentation will examine work being done to help education providers align and integrate knowledge and skills within their recreational boating program. It will also explore freely available methods and tools they can use to verify that their recreational boating programs comply with the newly developed skills-based American National Standards.
Kevin Colburn, American Whitewater: The National Whitewater Inventory
One of the most important components of river safety is information that helps people make good decisions. American Whitewater’s National Whitewater Inventory has been collecting and sharing crowd-sourced river information for roughly two decades and is currently being redesigned. The Inventory contains flow information, rapid descriptions, alerts, accident reports, photos, and other information that helps the public make smart decisions about where and when to paddle. In this session, we'll share how we are working to enhance the quality, mobility, and use of this online resource that features over 5,000 river reaches and is utilized by almost 1 million people annually.
Teaching is one of the most basic forms of leadership and there’s nothing new about the notion. In fact, according to a number of resources, including Ms. Susan Wilcox of the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy at the Instructional Development Centre at Queen's University in 1997, “Responsible leadership depends upon flexible behavior; the ability to diagnose what behaviors are needed at a particular time in order for the group to function most efficiently; and the ability to fulfill these behaviors or to get other members to fulfill them.”
Finding yourself bored, feeling challenged, or losing your enthusiasm for teaching knowledge based class room or on-water skills based boating safety education courses? Come to the session. We’ll be discussing and sharing – but most importantly learning from each other about ways to put the fun back into boating education courses through instructor leadership.
The session will provide insights, suggestions and resources to help make the courses you instruct more fun and enjoyable. Instruction (and learning) starts with you and your leadership skills! Come get excited about teaching, learning and sharing your experiences, tips and perhaps learn some new ones for more effective instruction!
Regarding the National RBS Strategic Plan, this session addresses Initiative 1: Improve and expand recreational boating education, training, and outreach.
*Note: This session includes additional notes; to request the notes, email rjohnson@safeboatingcouncil.org.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a report identifying the risks associated with the shared use of America’s Marine Transportation System by recreational and commercial vessels. The growth of both commercial and recreational vessel traffic during the last several decades is a significant risk factor. The number of canoers, kayakers, and standup paddleboarders increased by nearly 22 percent between 2008 and 2014. The diversity of waterway users and their differences in experience, navigational knowledge, and boat-handling skills exacerbate the safety risk.
The NTSB concludes in its safety recommendation report “Shared Waterways: Safety of Recreational and Commercial Vessels in the Marine Transportation System” that all recreational vessel operators need to attain a minimum level of boating safety education to mitigate risk. In addition, the NTSB believes the U.S. Coast Guard should require recreational boaters on US navigable waterways to demonstrate completion of an instructional course meeting the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators or equivalent standards. “Just as operators of motor vehicles upon our nation’s roadways are required to demonstrate a standard of understanding of the rules of the road in order to make roadways safer for all vehicles, large and small, so too must operators of recreational vessels understand and practice the rules of the road upon our nation’s maritime transportation system to make waterways safer for all vessels, large and small,” said NTSB Chairman Christopher A. Hart.
The NTSB issued three safety recommendations to the US Coast Guard, one to the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators and one the National Water Safety Congress in the report. These recommendations address the need to identify and mitigate risks associated with shared waterways, and training and education for recreational vessel operators.
The “Life Jacket Worn…Nobody Mourns” Campaign is an award-winning campaign that targets adult males to provoke them to wear life jackets. The non-profit Corps of Engineers Natural Resources Education Foundation is currently managing their second grant from the Sport Fish Restoration and Boating Trust Fund, administered by the USCG, to augment this campaign.
Feedback from focus groups was used to develop the campaign and products including logo, video PSAs, audio PSAs, posters, and artwork for banners, billboards, publication ads and social media. These products are available for download at www.PleaseWearIt.com. Also, a free mobile game “Lake Guard” is downloadable on Google Play and Apple app stores. The current grant funds are assisting to improve the mobile game, developing additional campaign video PSAs (in shorter 15-second formats), and providing tailgate wraps and banners to promote the campaign at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) lake and river projects. USACE has supplemented the campaign by developing other promotional products.
In this session, we will be presenting an overview of the campaign, how it is being used, and seeking feedback from you on new draft video PSAs. Also, campaign products that have been produced will be available for participants to take with them and use.
Panelists include: Stephen Ellerin – United States Boating Institute, Stu Gilfillen – U. S. Sailing, Nichole Kalil – ACR Electronics, Inc., and Dan Ratner – National Safe Boating Council.
As the current cadre of Recreational Boating Safety (RBS) leaders ages, it will become increasingly important to attract, engage, and even recruit the next generation of recreational boaters. This demographic is often considerably younger, more physically fit, more diverse, and driven by a different set of motivations than the generations of boaters before them. They are more interested in "boating for the millions, not the millionaires" and traditional RBS organizations will need to adapt if we are to reach them with our message and recruit them into our organizations.
Boat Handling Skills Without Water – Only In Simulation! New Generation Four Functionality…. Would you like to learn to drive a 20 ft. Boston Whaler and improve your boating skills with no risk and no worries?
The United States Power Squadrons® (USPS) will discuss the development of their Boating Skills Virtual Trainer® (BSVT) and how the new generation four functionality can be incorporated into boating education. The BSVT is the 2015 winner of the NASBLA Innovations Award. The small boat simulator provides hands-on experience with steering wheel and real Mercury throttle operated on a virtual lake with other sail and power boats, navigation aids, and a full marina for close-quarters maneuvers and docking. Instructors can vary the difficulty by changing wind and current direction and velocity and day/night scenarios.
For over 100 years, the U.S. Power Squadrons, the nation’s largest recreational boating organization, has been transferring knowledge to recreational boaters in the classroom, online, and on the water. These portable units have been uniquely developed as a partnership of the U.S. Power Squadrons and Virtual Driver Interactive under U.S. Coast Guard grants and are available for purchase. For videos and more info, visit www.usps.org/boatingskillsvt.
Boat occupant overboard emergencies are one of the most dangerous victim rescue scenarios that first responder personnel face. Best management rescue practices and frequent training exercises are vital to ensure the safe retrieval of overboard victims and ultimately, the safety of the first responder. Most boating fatalities involve vessel capsizing or falls overboard. The boater, instantly turned victim, unexpectedly enters the water and most often, is not wearing a life jacket.
As a first responder, are you prepared to place yourself and your partner in position to make a safe and successful rescue?
This breakout session will detail proven rescue techniques that will bolster all first responder’s rescue skill set. The presenter, 32-year USACE boat ranger, will outline and demonstrate first responder priorities in water rescue situations to include characteristics of a person in distress, a person drowning, the rescue sequence (Talk, Reach, Throw, Row, Go), in-water rescues, cold water rescues, unconscious and conscious victim retrieval, getting the victim and first responder back into the vessel.
Attendees will be encouraged to practice rescue techniques within the safe confines of the classroom setting. Boating and water safety is up to ALL of US!
One of the most critical components of law enforcement is proper training and to be more specific, training that is relevant to the type of work officers are providing. This philosophy ensures that officers utilize proper judgement exercised in the environment they are working from to reduce possible litigation and ensure officer survival in the worse-case scenarios. Marine law enforcement professionals focus tremendous amount of time towards firearm training, but the reality of officers actually conducting live fire from patrol boats on a national scale is slight at the best.
This short session will focus on the logistics involved in developing and applying a shoot-from-the-boat type of training and incorporating all of the safety angles involved. It will also involve working with other State agencies in accomplishing this training task.
During the 2015 National Association of Boating Law Administrators Conference, Kansas and Oklahoma paired together to provide the first ever, Marine Tactical firearms training course. A short preview of this event will be provided during this training session. The training aspect, although complex, does not compare to the logistical requirements that are involved.
The focus of this seminar will not be directly geared towards the standards of shooting tactics, but towards the logistics involved, so individual agencies may leave the seminar with a basic understanding that no matter how small of an agency or limited budget that this type of training can be done in a safe and educational manner. Agencies can take their existing policies and tactics and apply them to this type of training. From experiences training law enforcement officers within our State, most agencies do not have their marine officer trained in the use of firearms from their vessel to a threat, nor do they understand the concepts of cover and concealment when it comes to hull material of a vessel. Differing aspects between land patrol and marine patrol include environmental elements such as the sun, moon, waves, current, wind, and moving vessels. The concepts of this program should allow individual states to set up their own maritime law enforcement patrol vessel training program whether incorporating live fire, simulations, or other types of adaptive training methods.
This document discusses demystifying the legislative process and how to effectively communicate with lawmakers. It addresses that the legislative system can seem complex and designed not to pass new laws. It advocates using a sales process of first predisposing lawmakers to requests, then making an ask or presenting opportunities, and following up. Specifically, it recommends starting discussions based on lawmakers' perspectives, building long-term relationships over short-term information exchanges, and following up after meetings to maximize impact. The document encourages understanding the legislative system and lawmakers' needs to most effectively communicate goals.
Dr. Dan Maxim, Everest Consulting Associates: Situational Awareness
Human error is known to account for the majority of recreational boating accidents and it is time that the role of human error and relevant skills to reduce these errors is included in boating safety courses, as has happened in other transportation fields. Maintaining Situational Awareness [SA] (“knowing what is going on around you”) is one of the ways to reduce the likelihood of human error. This talk defines and explains SA, threats (attention demons) to maintaining SA (including temporal distortion, distraction, channelized attention, task saturation, expectancy, inattention, habituation, and negative transfer), clues to loss of SA, and ways to regain/maintain SA.
John Malatak, NASBLA: The Certified Recreational Boating Professional (CRBP)
Learn how you'll be able to differentiate yourself in a competitive job market. How to increase, demonstrate, and validate your skills and knowledge; achieve personal accomplishment; enhance your professional reputation, while demonstrating your high level of commitment to the national recreational boating program. Achieving the "CRBP" credential will demonstrate your competence and professional growth through continuing education, involvement and leadership.
The document discusses a grant from the National Safe Boating Council to create an education campaign targeting teens in safe boating practices. The campaign will provide on-water instruction in power boating, human propelled craft, and sailing, as well as printed materials and a social media element. Courses will be held in multiple locations with certified instructors, and students will receive completion certificates. The goal is to establish a sustainable summer boating education course for teens.
The National Safe Boating Council continues its year-round Safe Boating Campaign to address the National Recreational Boating Safety Program's priority to reduce the number of accidents, injuries, and deaths on America's waterways and provide a safe, enjoyable experience for the boating public. 2018 is an exciting year for the Safe Boating Campaign as the brand has been refreshed, including a new logo, website and other supportive materials. NSBC's Executive Director Peg Phillips and Communications Director Yvonne Pentz will unveil the new brand, share resources and answer questions on how others may support this important boating safety initiative. The session will be fun and informative, providing attendees with a thorough understanding of the campaign.
Joe Gatfield, Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons
The Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons "Safety Equipment Education and Flare Disposal Program" is a perfect example of a partnership with government and private industry to reach out to the public with boating safety awareness and environment protection all encompassed within one activity. Attendees will learn how the cooperation of volunteers, government, industry and marine chandleries can make a significant difference in boater's equipment choices and enhancement of the environment through proper disposition of pyrotechnics.
Shawn Alladio, K38: How Students Taught Me to Teach
When I first became interested in boating safety knowledge for Personal Water Craft there were no leaders or gurus in the field. There were racers and course marshals, and I knew many of them. In 1989, I embarked on working with safety clinics that turned into professional courses. Since there were no 'go to people,' I listened, I observed, and I questioned constantly in my thoughts and actions what was appropriate. I listened to professionals, even though my gut instinct told me they were wrong. Since they were lifeguards or firemen, I thought my knowledge base was inferior. Boy was I wrong. I was sent to a state boating education course. It was 40 hours. It was a near miserable experience, mainly because the instructors were so disconnected with the students we couldn't focus on the material for which we all hungered. Most were there to just get the certificate and run. Then in 1996, I went to an IBWSS Summit and there I met the Wizard of Boater Education, Mr. Virgil Chambers. I saw how a connected instructor changes the world and wakes up the sleeping student. I started over. I closely watched that to which students responded. I added what they needed to know. I balanced fair play between the two and adjusted to the personalities of each training group. Essentially, they taught me how to teach. I told them what they needed to know, I shared with them my experiences, and I focused on the foundational safety and skillsets that matter. This is not my journey or my answer, it's a collective. Many contributed to this and now when somebody tells me “we have always done it that way,” I know without flinching there is a lot of work to do to inspire an instructor and give them the foothold they need. Why? We need to mature and change, this new generation is evolving, and teaching methods are like watching snails move. We must evolve to remain in the target audience who does not have the time, the patience, nor the need to suffer through archaic and ridiculous methods of training that waste their time and hold their productivity hostage. We will begin the session with a simple question that each will write down: What is your purpose? Whatever the purpose of an instructor, the result will be productive only if the audience doesn't drift or fall asleep.
Stu Gilfillen, US Sailing, and Chris Stec, ACA: Work that Waterfront
US Sailing and the American Canoe Association have a combined network of 75,000 members and 2,000 organizations that they work with across the U.S. Learn about what programs they've seen be the most successful in different environments. They'll also identify a few select (and successful) programs that can serve as templates for how they've developed their waterfronts and leveraged key partnerships.
The document discusses plans to improve and streamline boating education standards. It proposes adopting a "CORE" and "CORE PLUS" structure to reduce redundancy across standards. Another proposal is to shift from process-focused to outcome-based standards stated in terms of what students must know and be able to do. Research suggests outcome-based training improves learning and skill retention. Near-term next steps include stakeholder input on changes, with powerboat standard renewal in 2021 providing an opportunity to implement revisions.
Scott McDonald, United States Power Squadrons: America's Boating Club Learning Centers
The United States Power Squadrons (USPS) Learning Center program, developed under a grant from the U. S. Coast Guard, establishes a network of non-profit training centers dedicated to teaching standards-based, on-water skills training. Leveraging our Hands-On Training: Basic Powerboat program, the Learning Centers will extend the USPS educational outreach and significantly increase the number of recreational boaters that receive on-water training. Teaching powerboat handling to the public on a large scale presents unique challenges. There are significant operational risks and economic issues that make it difficult to sustain such training programs. By drawing on the unique resources of USPS and leveraging relationships with our many partners, the USPS Learning Centers are seeking to break through these barriers to establish a self-sustaining program. As an added benefit, data collected by the program will provide feedback from the public and insight into strategies for the improvement of boater behavior.
Pam Dillon, NASBLA; Brian Dorval, Think First Serve; Joanne Dorval, METCOR, Ltd.
The presentation will examine the current status in the development of American National Standards for recreational boating instruction. These standards identify the core knowledge and fundamental skills education providers should build into their entry-level instructional programs. The presentation will examine work being done to help education providers align and integrate knowledge and skills within their recreational boating program. It will also explore freely available methods and tools they can use to verify that their recreational boating programs comply with the newly developed skills-based American National Standards.
Kevin Colburn, American Whitewater: The National Whitewater Inventory
One of the most important components of river safety is information that helps people make good decisions. American Whitewater’s National Whitewater Inventory has been collecting and sharing crowd-sourced river information for roughly two decades and is currently being redesigned. The Inventory contains flow information, rapid descriptions, alerts, accident reports, photos, and other information that helps the public make smart decisions about where and when to paddle. In this session, we'll share how we are working to enhance the quality, mobility, and use of this online resource that features over 5,000 river reaches and is utilized by almost 1 million people annually.
Teaching is one of the most basic forms of leadership and there’s nothing new about the notion. In fact, according to a number of resources, including Ms. Susan Wilcox of the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy at the Instructional Development Centre at Queen's University in 1997, “Responsible leadership depends upon flexible behavior; the ability to diagnose what behaviors are needed at a particular time in order for the group to function most efficiently; and the ability to fulfill these behaviors or to get other members to fulfill them.”
Finding yourself bored, feeling challenged, or losing your enthusiasm for teaching knowledge based class room or on-water skills based boating safety education courses? Come to the session. We’ll be discussing and sharing – but most importantly learning from each other about ways to put the fun back into boating education courses through instructor leadership.
The session will provide insights, suggestions and resources to help make the courses you instruct more fun and enjoyable. Instruction (and learning) starts with you and your leadership skills! Come get excited about teaching, learning and sharing your experiences, tips and perhaps learn some new ones for more effective instruction!
Regarding the National RBS Strategic Plan, this session addresses Initiative 1: Improve and expand recreational boating education, training, and outreach.
*Note: This session includes additional notes; to request the notes, email rjohnson@safeboatingcouncil.org.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a report identifying the risks associated with the shared use of America’s Marine Transportation System by recreational and commercial vessels. The growth of both commercial and recreational vessel traffic during the last several decades is a significant risk factor. The number of canoers, kayakers, and standup paddleboarders increased by nearly 22 percent between 2008 and 2014. The diversity of waterway users and their differences in experience, navigational knowledge, and boat-handling skills exacerbate the safety risk.
The NTSB concludes in its safety recommendation report “Shared Waterways: Safety of Recreational and Commercial Vessels in the Marine Transportation System” that all recreational vessel operators need to attain a minimum level of boating safety education to mitigate risk. In addition, the NTSB believes the U.S. Coast Guard should require recreational boaters on US navigable waterways to demonstrate completion of an instructional course meeting the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators or equivalent standards. “Just as operators of motor vehicles upon our nation’s roadways are required to demonstrate a standard of understanding of the rules of the road in order to make roadways safer for all vehicles, large and small, so too must operators of recreational vessels understand and practice the rules of the road upon our nation’s maritime transportation system to make waterways safer for all vessels, large and small,” said NTSB Chairman Christopher A. Hart.
The NTSB issued three safety recommendations to the US Coast Guard, one to the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators and one the National Water Safety Congress in the report. These recommendations address the need to identify and mitigate risks associated with shared waterways, and training and education for recreational vessel operators.
The “Life Jacket Worn…Nobody Mourns” Campaign is an award-winning campaign that targets adult males to provoke them to wear life jackets. The non-profit Corps of Engineers Natural Resources Education Foundation is currently managing their second grant from the Sport Fish Restoration and Boating Trust Fund, administered by the USCG, to augment this campaign.
Feedback from focus groups was used to develop the campaign and products including logo, video PSAs, audio PSAs, posters, and artwork for banners, billboards, publication ads and social media. These products are available for download at www.PleaseWearIt.com. Also, a free mobile game “Lake Guard” is downloadable on Google Play and Apple app stores. The current grant funds are assisting to improve the mobile game, developing additional campaign video PSAs (in shorter 15-second formats), and providing tailgate wraps and banners to promote the campaign at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) lake and river projects. USACE has supplemented the campaign by developing other promotional products.
In this session, we will be presenting an overview of the campaign, how it is being used, and seeking feedback from you on new draft video PSAs. Also, campaign products that have been produced will be available for participants to take with them and use.
Panelists include: Stephen Ellerin – United States Boating Institute, Stu Gilfillen – U. S. Sailing, Nichole Kalil – ACR Electronics, Inc., and Dan Ratner – National Safe Boating Council.
As the current cadre of Recreational Boating Safety (RBS) leaders ages, it will become increasingly important to attract, engage, and even recruit the next generation of recreational boaters. This demographic is often considerably younger, more physically fit, more diverse, and driven by a different set of motivations than the generations of boaters before them. They are more interested in "boating for the millions, not the millionaires" and traditional RBS organizations will need to adapt if we are to reach them with our message and recruit them into our organizations.
Boat Handling Skills Without Water – Only In Simulation! New Generation Four Functionality…. Would you like to learn to drive a 20 ft. Boston Whaler and improve your boating skills with no risk and no worries?
The United States Power Squadrons® (USPS) will discuss the development of their Boating Skills Virtual Trainer® (BSVT) and how the new generation four functionality can be incorporated into boating education. The BSVT is the 2015 winner of the NASBLA Innovations Award. The small boat simulator provides hands-on experience with steering wheel and real Mercury throttle operated on a virtual lake with other sail and power boats, navigation aids, and a full marina for close-quarters maneuvers and docking. Instructors can vary the difficulty by changing wind and current direction and velocity and day/night scenarios.
For over 100 years, the U.S. Power Squadrons, the nation’s largest recreational boating organization, has been transferring knowledge to recreational boaters in the classroom, online, and on the water. These portable units have been uniquely developed as a partnership of the U.S. Power Squadrons and Virtual Driver Interactive under U.S. Coast Guard grants and are available for purchase. For videos and more info, visit www.usps.org/boatingskillsvt.
Boat occupant overboard emergencies are one of the most dangerous victim rescue scenarios that first responder personnel face. Best management rescue practices and frequent training exercises are vital to ensure the safe retrieval of overboard victims and ultimately, the safety of the first responder. Most boating fatalities involve vessel capsizing or falls overboard. The boater, instantly turned victim, unexpectedly enters the water and most often, is not wearing a life jacket.
As a first responder, are you prepared to place yourself and your partner in position to make a safe and successful rescue?
This breakout session will detail proven rescue techniques that will bolster all first responder’s rescue skill set. The presenter, 32-year USACE boat ranger, will outline and demonstrate first responder priorities in water rescue situations to include characteristics of a person in distress, a person drowning, the rescue sequence (Talk, Reach, Throw, Row, Go), in-water rescues, cold water rescues, unconscious and conscious victim retrieval, getting the victim and first responder back into the vessel.
Attendees will be encouraged to practice rescue techniques within the safe confines of the classroom setting. Boating and water safety is up to ALL of US!
One of the most critical components of law enforcement is proper training and to be more specific, training that is relevant to the type of work officers are providing. This philosophy ensures that officers utilize proper judgement exercised in the environment they are working from to reduce possible litigation and ensure officer survival in the worse-case scenarios. Marine law enforcement professionals focus tremendous amount of time towards firearm training, but the reality of officers actually conducting live fire from patrol boats on a national scale is slight at the best.
This short session will focus on the logistics involved in developing and applying a shoot-from-the-boat type of training and incorporating all of the safety angles involved. It will also involve working with other State agencies in accomplishing this training task.
During the 2015 National Association of Boating Law Administrators Conference, Kansas and Oklahoma paired together to provide the first ever, Marine Tactical firearms training course. A short preview of this event will be provided during this training session. The training aspect, although complex, does not compare to the logistical requirements that are involved.
The focus of this seminar will not be directly geared towards the standards of shooting tactics, but towards the logistics involved, so individual agencies may leave the seminar with a basic understanding that no matter how small of an agency or limited budget that this type of training can be done in a safe and educational manner. Agencies can take their existing policies and tactics and apply them to this type of training. From experiences training law enforcement officers within our State, most agencies do not have their marine officer trained in the use of firearms from their vessel to a threat, nor do they understand the concepts of cover and concealment when it comes to hull material of a vessel. Differing aspects between land patrol and marine patrol include environmental elements such as the sun, moon, waves, current, wind, and moving vessels. The concepts of this program should allow individual states to set up their own maritime law enforcement patrol vessel training program whether incorporating live fire, simulations, or other types of adaptive training methods.
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June 20 2024
Good morning and welcome back to Energy Source, coming to you from New York, where the city swelters in its first heatwave of the season.
Nearly 80 million people were under alerts in the US north-east and midwest yesterday as temperatures in some municipalities reached record highs in a test to the country’s rickety power grid.
In other news, the Financial Times has a new Big Read this morning on Russia’s grip on nuclear power. Despite sanctions on its economy, the Kremlin continues to be an unrivalled exporter of nuclear power plants, building more than half of all reactors under construction globally. Read how Moscow is using these projects to wield global influence.
Today’s Energy Source dives into the latest Statistical Review of World Energy, the industry’s annual stocktake of global energy consumption. The report was published for more than 70 years by BP before it was passed over to the Energy Institute last year. The oil major remains a contributor.
Data Drill looks at a new analysis from the World Bank showing gas flaring is at a four-year high.
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Amanda
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1. Welcome
Western Florida
Search and Rescue (SAR)
Prevention and Response
18 May 2016
Presenting:
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LCDR Jeremy Bohn, USCG
Major Roger Young, FWC
Sector Commander
Captain Holly Najarian
6. Tampa Bay SAR
Council:
Key Members:
• USCG Sector St. Petersburg & AUX
• FWC
• Eckerd College SAR
• Pinellas County Fire Rescue
• Hillsborough County Fire & Marine
• Manatee County Fire & Marine
• Tampa Police/Fire Marine Units
• Commercial Assistance Providers
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