STUART, Fla. — A Treasure Coast doctor has been found guilty of violating navigational rules in a boating accident that caused a man to lose his legs.
Shortly after noon Wednesday, a Martin County judge dealt a guilty verdict to Roger Nicosia.
During Nicosia’s testimony, the emergency room doctor used toy boats to demonstrate his account of [...]
Heidi Slowssar crouched on her hands and knees Sunday evening deflating a large floating device near Marysville’s Chrysler Beach. The 35-year-old had just spent the past six hours or so floating from Lighthouse Beach in Port Huron to that point and “had a blast.”
“People were afraid to do it,” she said, [...]
Matthew A. Doheny, a Republican candidate for the 23rd Congressional District, has disclosed that he was twice charged with boating under the influence during a two-week span in 2004. “I’m deeply embarrassed that it happened,” he said. “I’m disappointed in my actions and disappointed as to what happened.”
Mr. Doheny decided to make the information public [...]
A great post at BoatTest.com covers the investigation into a 2009 small boat collision in which three people were killed and the operator of the offending vessel was found to be intoxicated.
Near the end of this article is a nice primer on running a floating sobriety checkpoint. Prior to start the deputies published their plans to the public in local newspapers to warn of stepped up enforcement efforts, likely the reason for a single arrest rather than multiple. On the water they used three separate buoyed [...]
In a media release dated July 15 Operation Dry Water reported the effort was such a resounding success that the next one has already been scheduled for June 24-26, 2011.
The National Association of State Boating Law Administrators in partnership with the U.S. Coast Guard and other agencies, the press release noted, launched Operation Dry Water [...]
The owner and operator of the boat 21-year-old Emma Nahas was on before she drowned in Lake Erie was cited for boating while under the influence of alcohol. Alex CuCu, 36, of Willoughby Hills, refused to take a breath test July 8, but Coast Guard maritime enforcement officer Tim Lieb gave CuCu a civil citation. [...]
NEW YORK – Coast Guard Sector New York received a report at approximately 2 a.m. Sunday from the operator of a pleasure craft with five persons aboard stating that they’d been struck by a yellow Seadoo in the vicinity of Ward’s Point. Another vessel, the Cornucopia Princess, also witnessed a yellow Seadoo operating erratically and [...]
Around 4 p.m. Wednesday, 43-year-old Discovery Bay, California resident Robin Lambert took her daughter and two female friends to go inner tubing on the Delta, Contra Costa Sheriff Marine Patrol Deputy Lt. Will Duke said. On Old River, southeast of Discovery Bay, Lambert miscalculated a turn and all three girls were thrown from the tube [...]
Investigators are alluding that alcohol may have been a key factor in this fatal crash. Remember the scene and the story behind. BUI enforcement isn’t the drug, migrant, or homeland security stories we see on the evening news, but it’s an important element in saving lives and preventing tragedies.
A late-night crash July 5 on the [...]
It’s five o’clock somewhere. I could think of a few additional charges to tack onto this one, especially with kids involved.
A boater on the Chicago River was charged with boating under the influence of alcohol after being seen turning erratically downtown and splashing children fishing on the river bank, police said.
Bruce Calvetti, 50, of [...]
Three years ago an opportunity presented to correct the behavior of a man who made a poor decision to operate a vessel while intoxicated. That opportunity was missed because of an improperly documented field sobriety test, where an officer’s failure to note the suspect’s use of prescription lenses caused a judge to dismiss the case. [...]
Authorities say they arrested 21 people Saturday and Sunday, 15 of them for underaged drinking, as part of a holiday weekend enforcement sweep. The zero tolerance multi-agency operation focused on underage drinking, disorderly intoxication, disorderly conduct, drug possession, drunk boating, assault and battery, lewd behavior, open container violations and included boat inspections, the Palm Beach [...]
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) took to the sea on Canada Day to stop an alleged impaired boater at the helm of a 12-metre sailboat. Police received a call at 8:50 p.m. of a male trying to navigate his vessel out of Newcastle Marina and smashing into other boats. “The citizens who made the [...]
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A 39-year-old Jersey City man has pleaded not guilty to charges of vehicular manslaughter, after police say his boat hit a smaller vessel near the Statue of Liberty on Friday, killing a man and injuring two others. Police say Richard Aquilone was drunk at the helm of a 30-feet-long boat bearing a woman and three [...]
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Peter J. Pistilli, 60, New York, was charged with boating under the influence at about 1 a.m. Sunday by state park police. Police said he was stopped by the U.S. Coast Guard on the St. Lawrence River in the town of Orleans after his boat nearly struck a Coast Guard craft as [...]
With such severe damage to the boat, the operator is lucky no one was killed. Nice job by responding officers in recognizing signs of impairment and taking the appropriate action.
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A southwest Chicago man is charged with boating under the influence after he crashed his boat into a break wall. The accident took place [...]
Here’s a pretty interesting case from across the pond.
Charter boat captain loses a man over the side and according to witnesses makes no effort to recover the victim or report the incident. The captain then goes to sleep in his bed believing he did nothing wrong. The victim was on a drug fueled bender when [...]
Charging someone with boating under the influence is a daily occurrence, and there would be nothing different about this case except the report reads like the suspect assaulted officers with his lifejacket. Four pounds of nylon lined foam flying at the face.
Assault by lifejacket, it happens more than most think.
As a reminder, Operation Dry Water [...]
