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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Let's be Boat Wise, which teaches children from nine through 14 all the basics of boat safety in a plav fashion, and the Skipper Saver course, 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- ples of these up-coming mini courses.

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