> Ken & Norm, > > ON JETSKI TURNING: > Ken says if the Jetski was going other than high speed it could have > turned. I seem to remember a few years ago that some young student collided in Miami Harbor and was killed when he collided into the back quarter of Gloria Esteban's boat. > The jetski cut its power when the boat went in front of him, and then > tried to turn. That Jetski would not turn without power on, and if power > was cut it just went forward! > > Ed
REPLY Jet skis and PWC in general are prohibited from operating after dark precisely because they must be run at a fast throttle to have steering and braking. To slow down you must accelerate while deploying the reverse bucket on the jet discharge strean. By definition operating a jet ski after dark is not only illegal but reckless since you cannot stop within the limit of visibility as defined under the col regs (normally applied to fog and other reduced vizibility conditions) It is because PWC are prohibited from operating during darkness, they are exempt from being fitted with navigation lights. Therefore it is neither conjecture or a supposition to say that the operator was careless (not to mention breaking the law) in running the PWC after dark regardless of the speed involved. If the operator was in fact a competent operator and conversant with the law, he was knowingly breaking the law. That is also careless. They would know that at slower speeds they lacked the ability to quickly steer around or to apply strong braking action suddenly. If they did not know that they were unskiled. Either way they were negligent in violating the law and careless in the operation of the water craft. In Canada where NASBLA also applies; it is illegal to run a PWC after sunset. NASBLA is American in origin and as far as I know is adopted and enforced by all states at this point. I somehow doubt any state has made it legal to operate any kind of PWC after sunset. Arild _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
