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Propeller Safety Year in Review 2019

Posted by Gary 
· Friday, December 13th, 2019 at 11:47 AM 
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A brief review of the major propeller safety events in 2019 including safety meetings, accidents, legal cases, deaths of those involved in the movement, statistics, patents, articles published, public service announcements, anniversaries, regulations, and other related events. A listing of some significant propeller safety events in 2019 follows: January 2019 – Ryan’s Law filed in […]

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Arm Chopped Off by boat propeller: Carter Viss

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· Monday, December 2nd, 2019 at 12:32 PM 
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Thanksgiving (Thursday 28 November 2019) Carter Viss 25 year old marine biologist from Palm Beach, Florida was snorkeling with some friends with a dive flag off Palm Beach. A 2008, 36 foot Yellowfin high performance boat operated by 30 year-old Daniel Stanton was coming into the area about 200 feet off shore. Stanton saw the […]

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Dennehey: Another Catamaran propeller accident

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· Tuesday, November 5th, 2019 at 09:05 PM 
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Shane Dennehy was on a college spring break trip organized by StudentCity in the Dominican Republic on March 2019 at Punta Canna. Student City organized a “booze cruise” on a catamaran named “Escandaloso” Shane Dennehy is now (November 2019) a junior at State University of New York in Binghamton, New York. Shane and his parents […]

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Kevin Rivera-Cornejo killed by rental houseboat propeller on Shasta Lake

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· Sunday, September 8th, 2019 at 12:05 PM 
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Kevin Rivera-Cornejo, 23 of San Jose California, was on the swim deck of a rental houseboat at Corey Cove on Shasta Lake in California about 4:30pm Friday 6 September 2019. His father, Hector Rivera, was at the controls beaching / mooring the houseboat. Onboard were family and friends. Kevin either jumped in or fell into […]

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USCG releases Recreational Boating Statistics 2018

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· Monday, August 26th, 2019 at 12:14 PM 
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U.S. Coast Guard released their annual 2018 recreational boating accident statistics report on 26 August 2019. Total counts for 2018 Coast Guard Boating Accident Report Database (BARD) reported accidents, injuries, and fatalities were down compared to 2017. 2018 USCG BARD reported accident statistics were 4145 accidents, 2,511 injuries, and 633 fatalities. 2017 USCG stats were […]

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Brunswick Neural Network Person Detection patent issued

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· Saturday, August 10th, 2019 at 11:41 AM 
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We continue to salute Brunswick for their efforts to detect people in the water near a recreational boat. Basics of the Patent U.S. Patent 10,372,976 Person Detection in a Marine Environment invented by Troy Kollmann and Jon Nowick, assigned to Brunswick issued on 6 August 2019. The patent’s first claim describes detecting people in the […]

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Cioban-Leontiy v. Silverthorn – houseboat case: part 1

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· Saturday, May 11th, 2019 at 09:15 PM 
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The Accident About 12 people took a 4 night houseboat rental Lake Shasta (California) in the summer of 2015. The 56 foot 2001 Waterway Houseboat (Canadian manufacturer) Mirage was powered by a Volvo Penta stern drive. Note – this is Part 1 of this post, Part 2 is our commentary on events on this page. […]

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Cioban v. Silverthorn: part 2: Our Comments

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· Saturday, May 11th, 2019 at 09:14 PM 
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We previously covered the status of Cioban-Leontiy v. Silverthorn Resorts & Volvo Penta rental houseboat propeller injury case in PART 1. As of 13 May 2019, negligence as described in part 2 of Plaintiff’s Second Amended Claim is the issue remaining in this case. Thus rental boat training, warnings, rental agreements, deficit safety features, rental […]

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Boat Propeller Injuries: Medical Case Studies paper

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· Wednesday, February 6th, 2019 at 05:33 PM 
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Trauma Monthly published a great paper in July 2017 in which eight European medical professionals in The Netherlands wrote in detail about four specific boat propeller accidents. The authors provide medical histories of the four individuals injured including color photos of their injuries, how they were treated by paramedics, what happened initially at the hospital, […]

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Propeller Safety Year in Review 2018

Posted by Gary 
· Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019 at 04:55 PM 
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A brief review of the major propeller safety events in 2018 including safety meetings, accidents, legal cases, deaths of those involved in the movement, statistics, patents, articles published, public service announcements, anniversaries, regulations, and other related events.

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