National Safe Boating Week is the official launch of the 2019 North American Safe Boating Campaign. The U.S. Coast Guard and Coast Guard Auxiliary wish to help ensure the general public enjoys secure, comfortable, and exciting boating this season by raising awareness of critical life-saving guidelines for recreational boaters.

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At the May 6 Florence City Council meeting, Safe Boating Partners Mayor Joe Henry and the City of Florence, to help spread the Safe Boating message, provided a National Safe Boating Week (May eleven-18) proclamation to Team Coast Guard participants from Station Siuslaw River.

Senior Chief Boatswain’s Mate (BMCS) Jay Nilles, Officer-in-Charge at Station Siuslaw River, every day proclamation.

Mayor Henry and Senior Chief Nilles donned existence jackets to deliver the essential message.

Mayor Henry additionally shared a recent letter from Rear Admiral David Throop, Commandant of the Thirteenth Coast Guard District, officially thanking the network of Florence for its guide for the duration of the partial government shutdown earlier this 12 months.

BMCS Nilles echoed the admiral’s sentiments, pointing out that he had by no means seen a network come collectively, just like the residents of Florence, to help aid the Coast Guard.

He expressed the support was overwhelming and highly favored. As a token of appreciation, Senior Chief Nilles offered the Mayor and each town council member an embossed Heceta Lighthouse/Coast Guard coin.

The proclamation indicates that 650 humans per year in boating-associated accidents in the U.S., And 76 percent of these are because of drowning. A considerable range of boaters who lose their lives via drowning every 12 months could be alive these days had they worn their existence jackets.