This document discusses the importance of asking the right questions when managing aquatic risk and safety. Rather than focusing on statistics or specific scenarios, the key is to change how people think by asking questions that focus on safety, supervision and individual abilities such as whether an activity is appropriate given a person's skill level and if necessary precautions are in place.

1. Asking the Right Questions
The Final Step in Managing Aquatic Risk
Mario Vittone

9. Boating Stats

11. Who is average?

12. 33
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18. You forget where you are going.

19. Wrong Question
Can my husband
take our twins out
on the pontoon
boat by myself?

20. Wrong Question
If there is a lifeguard
present, can my
daughter go to her
friend’s pool party?

25. We have to change how they think.
ask the right questions.