resulted in three deaths last August has a silver
lining for boat safety in British Columbia.

People are seeking safety
and boating training in
greater numbers than ever
before, reports Canadian
Power and Sail Squadron
(formerly the Canadian
Power Squadron) Pacific
Mainland district command-
er Albert Harskamp.

Registration for the
group’s basic safe boating
course starting in September
was up 23 per cent over the
previous year.

“It’s too bad it takes this
type of accident to make
people sit up and take train-

{ ing,’ said Harskamp. ‘‘On
: the other hand the media
coverage does us good.””

While the Power
Squadron takes no official
stand, many of its members
— including Harskamp --
are against a recommenda-
tion by a coroner's jury inte

the fatal collision to license
pleasure boat operators.

Harskamp believes the on-
ly ways to prevent accidents
on the coast is through
education. And because
licensing does little to
educate, the effort would
only create another
bureaucracy and would be
impossible to enforce.

The course, which places a
heavy emphasis on safety,
covers the rules of the road,
personal floatation, collision
reguiations, bearing,
elementary coarse plotting
and more, Harskamp says.

While the course can’t
teach everything about boat
safety, this course can at
least keep you out of trou-
ble, he says.

After 47 years in Canada
this non-profit, all-volunteer
organization has 2,300
members nationally and
educates 10,000 boating stu-
dents annually.

ALBERT HARSKAMP
Despite the squadron’s
excellent record in training
pleasure boaters, only a

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A CONTROVERSIAL collision between a B.C.
ferry and the pleasure craft Kimberley that

fraction of Canadian
pleasure boaters have any
formal education, Harskamp
says.

Nationally there are 1.5
million boaters and only five
per cent of these have any
training at all, he says.

Of the 120,000 boaters on
the B.C. coast, Canadian
Coast Guard figures suggest
on any given summer
weekend less than [fC per
cent have any training, Har-
skamp reports.

And much of the com-
mercial fleet isn't much bet-
ter, he says,

Harskamp warns that
self-teaching does not work
effectively because the nec-
essary information is so
broad.

Besides its basic boating

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safety course, the Power
Squadron teaches a variety
of advanced courses.

Participants must pass the
basic course and be a Power
Squadron member to be
eligible for the advanced
courses, but the Power
Squadron also offers a series
of 16 public information
courses available to all.

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which instructs the captain's
spouse the basics on how to
get the skipper home safely
in case of accident or
sickness, are just two exam-
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