Friday, September 30, 2005


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Three Injured In New Melones Boating Accident

Three Fremont men are recovering from injuries sustained in a boating accident at New Melones Reservoir Friday.


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Probation in boating death case

A Tarpon Springs man charged with manslaughter in the 2003 boating death of his friend pleaded no contest to the charge and received four years of probation in court Monday.


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Cause of Deadly Boating Accident Unknown

Sep 27, 2005 9:18 am US/Eastern Rices Landing Investigators still don't know why a pleasure boat crashed into some barges on the Monongahela River in Greene County, killing two cousins from Washington County ...


Bloglines - 3 Sumter men ID'd in Seneca boating wreck

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3 Sumter men ID'd in Seneca boating wreck

Three Sumter men have been identified as being involved in a boating incident that left a 26-year-old Upstate man dead.


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Boater Arrested After Woman Injured In Crash

A Windham, N.H., man was arrested and charged with drunken boating this week after a crash on Lake Winnipesaukee that broke both his wife's legs.


Tuesday, September 27, 2005


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WPXI - ... Bodies Found After Boating AccidentCoast Guard Rescued Two WomenPOSTED: 4:29 pm EDT September 26, 2005UPDATED: 5 ... men who died in a boating accident on the Monongahela River were ...


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Two women rescued, two men missing after Greene boating accident

WETM 18 - RICES LANDING, Pa. ( AP) - Two men are missing and presumed dead this morning after their pleasure boat struck a barge on the Monongahela River in Greene County last night.


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WPXI - ... Two Men Missing After Boating AccidentCoast Guard Rescues Women From BoatPOSTED: 8:30 am EDT September 26 ... two men missing after a boating accident.That accident happened Sunday on ...


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Safety on the Water

Guest Writer Last week I wrote about foolish people putting other people in danger by doing stupid things.


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Body found in Eagle Creek reservoir

A man's body was found floating in Eagle Creek reservoir early Sunday morning. The body was identified by Marion County sheriff's deputies as Donald P. Montgomery, 64, 3400 block of Maritime Drive.


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Fatal Boating Accident

Liza Park Piney Z Lake can be a picture of serenity, but Saturday night the lake turned out to be deadly for 48-year-old Bruce Ling of the Chaires Community.


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GANNETT NEWS SERVICE The family of a Long Valley resident, missing in Florida where he was boating since Sept.


Monday, September 26, 2005


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Lake residents float new safety regulations Victor Reklaitis vreklaitis@newsadvance.com September 6, 2005 MONETA - A few days before a public forum on boating safety, a speed limit for Smith Mountain Lake and licenses for boaters are some of the ideas getting tossed around by lake residents. Some are also calling for a ban on high-performance boats like the one involved in an Aug. 20 accident that killed a Moneta couple. “There are about 20,000 full-time residents who live on or near Smith Mountain Lake, and there are about 20,000 different ideas about how the lake could be made safer for boating,” said one official, Ralph Brush, as he announced the forum last week. “Right now, they are very angry and they want action.” The forum, slated for 6 p.m. Thursday at Trinity Ecumenical Parish, will come less than three weeks after the recent wreck. On Aug. 20, a 38-foot Donzi performance boat plowed over the couple’s cabin cruiser at about 60 miles per hour. The Donzi’s owner, Mark F. Detournillon, 45, of Moneta, told authorities he had taken several medications and drank a glass of wine, according to a search warrant affidavit. He faces two charges of involuntary manslaughter. “It’s not just the high-powered boats,” said one lake resident, Dee Dee Bondurant. “Speed - period - is an issue.” She said “muscle boats” shouldn’t be singled out, since Jet Skis and bass boats also can travel at speeds of more than 60 miles per hour. But Bondurant, the co-founder of a women’s group called the She-Doos that emphasizes the safe use of Jet Skis and Sea-Doos, said she’s not sure what would be a suitable speed limit or if it could be enforced. Other lake communities across the United States have implemented or are considering speed limits. On Lake George in upstate New York, the daytime speed limit is 45 miles per hour, and the nighttime speed limit is 25 miles per hour. Lake George covers about 28,000 acres, while Smith Mountain Lake covers about 22,000. There are no-wake zones at Smith Mountain Lake and age limits for using Jet Skis, but there are no posted speed limits and no boating licenses. In the past three years, it has been the site of at least 20 percent of Virginia’s boating accidents, and it’s often called Virginia’s most dangerous body of water. Another lake resident with suggestions is Bob Moran, a volunteer firefighter who responded to the Aug. 20 accident. “Do we need these big boats on the lake?” he asked of high-performance boats, which can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and are often criticized for being too loud or too fast. He said responding to the wreck left him upset and wondering, “Did he have to go that fast?” and “Did this really have to happen?” Moran said he has thought about horsepower limits as well as speed limits, and banning Jet Skis as well as high-performance boats. “There’s so many possibilities. It’s just a matter of what can be done,” he said. While 21 Jet Skis and other personal watercraft (PWCs) have been involved in the 75 reported accidents on Smith Mountain Lake since 2003, it’s unclear how many of the accidents have involved high-performance boats. In accident reports, performance boats are put in a kind of catchall category - “open watercraft” - that includes runabouts and bass boats. That’s according to Capt. Ron Henry of the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (DGIF). Henry said 18 of the 75 reported accidents since 2003 have been at night. In addition, 2003 had one fatal accident on Smith Mountain Lake, while 2004 and this year have each had three boating deaths. Other proposals for making the lake safer for boating include improving the existing boater education programs and giving DGIF more money and greater flexibility. This summer, wardens have struggled with a new law that provided no additional resources, but required at least one warden to patrol Smith Mountain Lake daily from sunrise to sunset. Some people at Smith Mountain Lake don’t see a need for speed limits, boating licenses or other new measures. “I really think it was an isolated incident,” Lee Fusco said of the recent wreck. He lives in Northampton, Penn., but spends many weekends at his home on the lake. He said, “Basically, people have to use common sense. I don’t see where rules or laws or restrictions are going to do anything.” Fusco, the owner of a 28-foot Donzi high-performance boat, said his goal is to be as safe as possible, and he doesn’t boat at night. While performance boats are taking a lot of heat, he argued that, “It’s not the boat that gives you the trouble. It’s the person driving it.”

Sunday, September 25, 2005

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Body of Boater Found In Water (The Ledger)

LAKELAND -- Rescuers on Wednesday recovered the body of Jeffrey Busiere, 47, one of two boaters reported missing Tuesday, from a phosphate pit south of State Road 60.


Bloglines - Boater disappears in lake (Orlando Sentinel)

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Boater disappears in lake (Orlando Sentinel)

Divers searched Lake Harris all day Thursday for a Leesburg boater who authorities said was pushed overboard during a fight.


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Charges laid in boating death of Stayner woman

West Parry Sound OPP said Monday they have laid charges in connection with the death of Stayner resident Julie Rainbird-Kendrick. Douglas Reginald Gibson, 56, of Mono Township is charged with impaired operation ...


Friday, September 23, 2005


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Bloglines - Siberian ship tragedy death toll rises to 13 (Russian Information Agency Novosti)

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Siberian ship tragedy death toll rises to 13 (Russian Information Agency Novosti)

NOVOSIBIRSK, September 22 (RIA Novosti) - The death toll in a tragedy that struck a ship in Siberia has risen to 13, a local official said Thursday.


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Floating Island Barge

Just like any other barge, only this one has bark and leaves By Nicole DavisBob Henry has tugged a few odd things in his time: an inflatable rubber doll promoting a Stevie Van Zandt concert on Randall’s Island; fuel rods from a decommissioned nuclear power plant. But Robert Smithson’s “Floating Island” is by far the most beautiful barge of the tugboat captain’s career. “It’s a very small version of Central Park,” he said of the floating work of art currently circling around Manhattan. He’s not kidding. Inside the 30 x 90 foot plot of land are schist rocks borrowed from Central Park, the very ones that form the bedrock of Manhattan, and the kind the late Robert Smithson would have probably wanted on his moving earthwork. Conceived in 1970, “Floating Island to Travel Around Manhattan Island” was finally realized in time for the current retrospective of Smithson’s work at the Whitney Museum, and will wend its way around the city from 8 AM to 8 PM until Sunday the 24th. For the tugboat captain, it’s just another load, not unlike the lumber he tugs to maritime construction firms, “only this one has leaves and bark.” To other observers unfamiliar with Smithson’s work, like security guard Yvenson Saintil, who works the Coast Guard parking lot near Battery Park, it doesn’t even resemble a living thing. “I thought it was trash,” Saintil said. If only Smithson were around to explain its intent. The artist died in a plane crash at the age of 35, but before his untimely death he helped pioneer a brave new field of art—one that used the field as its canvas. Works like Michael Heizer’s “Double Negative,” a spectacular hole dug out of a Nevada mesa, and Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty,” a coil of basalt rocks assembled in Utah’s Great Salt Lake, manhandled nature in such a way that the art itself became a physical place. That these “earthworks” didn’t stay put was just as significant to Smithson, who was fixated on the notion of entropy and the impermanence of things.It’s possible that the muse for Smithson’s massive undertakings was the landscape architect behind Central Park. In an essay Smithson wrote five months before the 1973 plane crash, he calls Frederick Law Olmstead the world’s first true earth artist. A hundred years before works like Spiral Jetty created something unique and interactive from static landscapes, Olmstead eschewed the vision of Central Park as a fixed, formal garden and made it a place where people, nature, even traffic could coexist. Smithson praised Olmstead for reclaiming land jeopardized by urban growth, and turning it into a thing of beauty. “My own experience,” wrote Smithson, “is that the best sites for ‘earth art’ are sites that have been disrupted by industry, reckless urbanization, or nature’s own devastation.” The earthworks artist lived very close to one such tableau. He and his widow, artist Nancy Holt, used to take walks along the Hudson River when they lived together in New York, and Holt says those strolls got Smithson thinking about his maritime opus. Curators of the exhibit and those who manage his estate believe the idea falls in line with his penchant for “displacement.” Smithson had “displaced” nature once before by bringing it inside the white walls of a gallery, so it stands to reason this was his way of displacing nature yet again, only instead of taking the flora inside, he plucked them from their normal domain, attached it to a symbol of industry of New York’s working harbor, and set in orbit around the city. Smithson made one detailed sketch of this vision, but he hit a wall when it came to financing and finding permits for the project. “New York was a different world then,” Holt said on September 16, the day the island made its debut at the Hudson River Park’s Pier 46. “Think about the Gates—it took 20 years for that to happen.”Smithson’s island took 30 years, and about two million less to create. A year before his current retrospective went up at the Whitney, curator Chrissy Isles tapped a woman familiar with creating ambitious, large-scale projects, Diane Shamash of the Minetta Brook arts organization, to help her pick up where Smithson left off. Together they began walking the waterfront too, envisioning the logistics of tugging a 150-ton island around the city. They met with tugboat captains, even watched a dozen tugs race in the “Tugboat Challenge” off Staten Island. “It’s really quite a community,” said Shamash, a petite woman who keeps her short, chestnut hair cinched in a ponytail.Ultimately, Shamash amassed a team of 20 to help translate the sketch Smithson left of his fantasy island. (Aside from a notes specifying a willow tree, the other plants were left open to interpretation so long as they were native to New York.) Jon Rubin, a filmmaker and performance artist who screens movies on a barge called “Floating Cinema,” was the most experienced person to handle the logistics of hiring the tugboat operator. “This was my first time acting as a project manager,” said Rubin, who helped oversee the four-month, $200,000 construction of the island. “I’m not sure if I’ll ever do something like this again. But I’m proud of how it turned out.”He continued managing from behind the scenes last Friday, before the tug made its inaugural run around Manhattan on Saturday the 17th. As Holt, Shamash, and various others made their introductory remarks about the project’s genesis and completion, Rubin paced in the back of the crowd, speaking in hushed tones to Bob Henry via cell phone.“Can you pull it back so that it’s centered?” he asked the tugboat captain, as the island began to drift during Holt’s remarks. Smithson’s widow, a white-haired woman who now lives in New Mexico, was reminiscing about the time she and Smithson spent in the city.“Bob and I used to live on West 12th and Greenwich Street, not far from here,” she said wistfully. “I used to look out the window to where we’re standing, where this island is now floating.” Behind her, the wind and currents made the island bob and drift “like a bad puppy on a leash,” said Henry. Smithson, who appreciated nature’s tendency toward disorder, would have been pleased at how his art was behaving.

Thursday, September 22, 2005

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10 News - Bartow, Florida - The Polk County Sheriff's Office is working on a boating accident, they say two men are missing in body of water.


Bloglines - Roseville Man Presumed Drowned At Tahoe

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Roseville Man Presumed Drowned At Tahoe

A Roseville man is missing and presumed drowned after a boating accident on Lake Tahoe.Friends told searchers the 24-year-old man was riding behind their boat on a towed water toy Saturday when he went into the ...


Wednesday, September 21, 2005

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Kansas City Star - KBI review of boating death could take six weeks, official says Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. - A Kansas Bureau of Investigation review of a 21-year-old man's drowning could take up to six weeks, a top KBI official said Tuesday. ... days after he went into the water while boating with four acquaintances last week ...


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Yachts and Yachting Online - World-class yachtsman, Mike Golding has helped the British Marine Federation (BMF) and the Royal Yacht Association (RYA) launch a new environmental awareness project. ... aim is to encourage boaters and boating businesses to be more aware environmentally and ... to encourage an environmentally sustainable boating community, through a variety of different ...


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Hospitality First - ... As members of the boating community, Forever Resorts wants to remind boaters of the simple precautions they ... Alcohol and Boating Don't Mix Boating, fishing and other water sports are ...


Bloglines - Man missing after Tahoe boating accident

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Man missing after Tahoe boating accident

A California man is missing and presumed drowned after a boating accident on Lake Tahoe.


Bloglines - Injured teen shares survival story (Reg Req'd)

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Injured teen shares survival story (Reg Req'd)

A Central Texas teen shared his story of survival, after losing his leg in a boating accident this summer.


Bloglines - One Dead and Two Missing in Boating Accident at Winchester Bay

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One Dead and Two Missing in Boating Accident at Winchester Bay

One person is dead, two are missing and two have been rescued by the Coast Guard after a charter fishing boat overturned just south of the Umpqua River Jetty.


Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Bloglines - Man Presumed Drowned In Tahoe Boating Accident

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KPIX-TV5 - Coast Guard Petty Officer Mike Faivre, the water temperature was 62 degrees and the air temperature was 57 degrees. ... Man Presumed Drowned In Tahoe Boating Accident (AP) SOUTH LAKE TAHOE A California man is missing and presumed drowned after a boating accident on Lake Tahoe.Friends told ...


Monday, September 19, 2005


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OptusNet - ... Sixty-seven people have died in alcohol-related boating accidents during the past 10 years ... one-and-a-half million people who go boating in NSW every year, we want to ...


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Bloglines - 2 students drown in a Cotabato lake

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2 students drown in a Cotabato lake

Two students drowned while seven others swam to safety when the boat they were riding on capsized on Lake Sebu in T'boli, South Cotabato on Friday.


Saturday, September 17, 2005

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Inflatable Life Jackets (Gadling)

It sucks to be out boating when the only life-jackets available are those bulky orange ones that make you look like you’re about to compete in the Special Olympics 50m freestyle. Doesn’t it seem sometimes like life jacket technology has hardly moved an inch all these years? Well, it has. You just have to know where to look. For example, take a look at the Inflatable Collar PFD from Mustang


Bloglines - Woman faces charge of 'BUI' after boat accident on river (The Steubenville Herald-Star)

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Woman faces charge of 'BUI' after boat accident on river (The Steubenville Herald-Star)

WEIRTON - A Wintersville woman has been charged with boating under the influence following an accident on the Ohio River late Monday night. According to Hancock County Sheriff Mike White, Carol Ellen Marker was charged after a pleasure boat she was operating collided with a barge.


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MSNBC Local - ... The high emotions surrounding the boating death of 11-year-old Brianna Lieneck ... when prosecutors formally dropped the boating while intoxicated charges against Fleischer before ...


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Issue Date: Sep 15, 2005 Fall Boating Requires Extra Precaution It is true: the best boating on Grand Lake is between September 1st and December 1st.


Friday, September 16, 2005


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10,000 tonnes of coal hit by fire on cargo ship (EveningTimes Online)

SCOTS fire crews today fought a blaze on a cargo ship packed with 10,000 tonnes of coal. The fire broke out in one of the holds of the ship docked at Hunterston port in North Ayrshire.


Bloglines - Seven people rescued from sunken ship in Siberia (Russian Information Agency Novosti)

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Seven people rescued from sunken ship in Siberia (Russian Information Agency Novosti)

KRASNOYARSK, September 16 (RIA Novosti, Svetlana Belkovich) - Three crewmembers and four passengers of a ship that sunk in the Siberian port of Dudinka Friday have been rescued, a local official said.


Bloglines - 'DRUNK BOATING' FRACAS (New York Post)

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'DRUNK BOATING' FRACAS (New York Post)

'DRUNK BOATING' FRACAS September 15, 2005 -- Mayhem broke out in a Long Island courthouse yesterday after drunken-boating charges against an air-traffic controller were thrown out and his lawyer and pals started throwing punches at reporters covering the tragedy that took the life of a young girl.


Thursday, September 15, 2005


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ISSUE DATE 09-08-05 Be Prepared for Nighttime Boating The tragic accident that took two lives on the waters of Grand Lake last weekend accentuates the fact that boating at night is a very different procedure ...


Bloglines - Coast Guard ramps up security with M-60 machine guns (Reg Req'd)

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Coast Guard ramps up security with M-60 machine guns (Reg Req'd)

The U.S. Coast Guard has added machine guns to river patrols in order to increase security.


Bloglines - Questions over intoxication central to fatal boating case

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Questions over intoxication central to fatal boating case

Prosecutors likely will rely on witness accounts in the suspected driver's trial.


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Three-Year-Old Found

A three-year-old boy is found alone in a boat on a lake in Washington State. He and his father were out boating Sunday afternoon.


Bloglines - Boater DUI Charges Dropped for L.I. Man

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Boater DUI Charges Dropped for L.I. Man

Suffolk County prosecutors say lab tests failed to show 33-year-old Steven Fleischer was boating while intoxicated during the fatal accident back in August.


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Scuffle breaks out after charge dropped in boating crash

A small riot broke out in the hallway of Central Islip court Wednesday after a judge dropped charges against the Bay Shore man who drove the boat that killed 11-year-old Brianna Lienek.


Bloglines - 2 years after their son was killed in boating collision, parents struggling to find justice

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2 years after their son was killed in boating collision, parents struggling to find justice

JACK IDDON/The Standard-Times Caroline and Jose DaCosta hold an artist's portrait of their son, Jose, who was killed in a boating accident in September 2003.


Monday, September 12, 2005

Boat Kills Snorkler

Boat kills snorkler E-mail This Article Printable Version Hollywood, Florida - Investigators are searching for the boater who struck and killed a snorkeler in the waters off Hollywood. Ghaleb Tayfour of Sunrise had been snorkeling with a friend Saturday night. Authorities say a 25- to 30-foot white motorboat collided with the 26-year-old as he surfaced, and kept going. Tayfour died of his injuries. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, a divers-down flag was found in the area, but it's not known if it was being used properly. Under Florida law, vessels must stay at least 100 feet away from a divers-down flag in rivers, inlets or navigation channels.The legal distance is 300 feet in waters outside those areas. Family members say Tayfour was close to completing his master's degree in biology at Florida Atlantic University. The Associated Press & Tampa Bay's 10 News

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