Boat Safety Tips

Better safe than sunk.

Markel’s claims handlers and examiners are strong safety advocates because they have seen what happens as a result of people not taking boating safety seriously. We encourage all our boaters to take advantage of these valuable boat safety tips from the following sites:

Nautical Know How, Inc – www.boatsafe.com

US Coast Guard – http://www.uscgboating.org/safety/default.aspx

U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary
The United States Coast Guard Auxiliary was established by Congress in 1939 to assist the Coast Guard in promoting boating safety.

U.S. Coast Guard Office of Boating Safety
Learn how to prevent accidents, injuries, and fatalities while boating. Review safety tips, news, recalls, defects, and laws and regulations you should know.

National Association of State Boating Administrators  
Offers a wide variety of links to various safety courses, tips and information.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers       
Leading provider of outdoor recreation on all Federally-managed public lands in the United States.

National Safe Boating Council       
The mission of the NSBC is to reduce accidents and enhance the boating experience.

Personal Watercraft Industry Association (PWIA)  
PWIA was created to bring together companies that manufacture Personal Watercraft (PWC) in order to promote safe and responsible operation of PWC and work with federal, state and local agencies which have regulatory responsibilities for recreational boating.

NOAA National Weather Service - National Hurricane Center
To be America's calm, clear and trusted voice in the eye of the storm.

Grow Boating     
The Grow Boating Initiative is a cooperative effort among recreational boating industry leaders to assess the state of the industry and explore ways to improve sales and participation by actively promoting the boating lifestyle, improving product quality and improving industry statistics.