The image below does not include the updates, but if you download it, you will see them. We also added the 1997 BARD reported accidents. Note- we updated this chart on Octowith the 2011 BARD reported accidents. It is best viewed on a 24 inch or larger monitor. You can download a pdf of the spreadsheet that includes additional columns of data by clicking on it. The spreadsheet below summarizes our findings. It looks like these accidents happen much more frequently than they are reported to BARD. We found almost countless reports online, but few of them are well documented, so we left them off our list. We also checked some media (news) reports, boat forums, and other online sources for additional boat or outboard motor or stern drive struck a floating or submerged dredge pipe accidents. We went back and fleshed out those accidents into a spreadsheet format including the basic statistics surrounding those accidents. Coast Guard Boating Accident Report Database (BARD) accident numbers for dredge pipe strike accidents. Earlier, when we started making a list of outboard motors that had flipped into boats, we jotted down several U.S. In the absence of a list, we started making one ourselves. We found some dredge safety studies, but they focused on the safety of dredging employees, not boating safety. We thought it might especially exist over in the dredge safety literature, but found no such list there either. We started looking for a list of similar “struck dredge pipe” accidents and were a bit surprised not to find any such list. A 175 HP Mercury outboard struck a submerged dredge pipe, flipped back up into the boat, and the boy was killed by its propeller. In the Storm Lake accident, a ten year old boy, David Paul McFarlin was killed on May 31, 2010. Brunswick case has focused attention on boats and marine drives striking submerged or floating dredge pipes / dredge lines.
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