This is a case involving a water craft crossing over a low head dam.
I. Facts:
1. At approximately 1530 hours on April 27, a 14’ Cub Aluminum, John type rowboat carrying three occupants, Wk, Dh and Rh was carried over the crest of a low head dam at mile 271, Lg River, near the town of Se. The boat capsized in the ...
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Category Archives: Safety
PWC collision case
This is a typical report concerning a PWC on PWC collision:
I. Facts:
1. At 12:20 PM on Saturday August 31, two personal water craft (PWC’s) collided on Lake Wawasee, Kosciusko County. The operator of the 2002 Bombardier Sea-Doo which was struck was Db. The operator of the striking 2001 Bombardier Sea-Do...
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Pool drowning case
The following is my preliminary report in a typical pool drowning incident. In developing this preliminary report I reviewed information from police, medical and investigative files.
1. The victim, CD, was a 14 year old, black male, 74 inches tall, weighing 215 pounds. According to Los AngelesPolice Dept. records, he ...
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20 Water Safety Questions
What's Your H2O (Safety) IQ?
By
David S. Smith, Ph.D
Commander, USCG (RET)
The following 20 questions were the basis of a key address to the First International Boating and Water Safety Summit, April 18-25, 1997 in San Diego, California. The Summit was spons...
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Requests for case reviews
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In my files I have hundreds of reports dealing with a complete range of aquatic litigation. The only aspect not touched upon is SCUBA. These reports include but are not limited to swimming/drowning, diving/cervical spine injuries, boating accident reconstruction/ collisions/prop strike...
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