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A “Boating Accident” is a general term that includes loss of consciousness, medical treatment, loss of life, disappearance, or injury/disability in excess of 24 hours to any person on board or connected to a vessel regardless of lack of any damage to the vessel itself or its equipment. A vessel is also said to be involved in a Boating Accident if the occurrence results in damage by or to the vessel or its equipment in excess of $200. This includes capsizing, collision, fire, foundering, explosion, or disappearance of the vessel other than theft.

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  • Two men die in boat crash in Victoria (The West Australian)
    Two local men have been killed in a boating accident at Lakes Entrance after their 5.4 metre runabout crashed into an unlit channel marker. The men were well-known in the area, in Victoria's southeast, but their names were yet to released following the overnight accident, police said.

  • Two die in boat mishap (The Age)
    Two men have been killed in a boating accident at Lakes Entrance, eastern Victoria.

  • Mates dead in boat (Herald Sun)
    TWO budding businessmen died yesterday in a boating accident shrouded in mystery.

  • Two men killed in boating accident (The West Australian)
    Two men have died after their boat hit a channel marker in Victoria's far south-east overnight. Police believe the accident happened sometime before 1am (AEDT) near the footbridge at Cunningham's Arm, in Lakes Entrance.

  • Two men killed in boating accident (AAP via Yahoo!Xtra News)
    Two men have died after their boat hit a channel marker in Victoria's far south-east overnight.

  • Two killed in boating accident (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)
    Two Bairnsdale men have been killed in a boating accident at Lakes Entrance in eastern Victoria.

  • Man jumps off boat, struck by propeller (ABC 7 Gulfshore News)
    The U.S. Coast Guard responded late Saturday afternoon to a boating accident off the coast of Lover's Key.

  • Man jumps off boat, struck by propeller (NBC 2 Fort Myers)
    The U.S. Coast Guard responded late Saturday afternoon to a boating accident off the coast of Lover's Key.

  • Fisherman made fateful decision prior to drowning tragedy (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)
    A Tasmanian coroner has found that a recreational fisherman who died in a boating accident on Tasmania's west coast last year had made a fateful decision to travel through treacherous seas.

  • Divers recover body in boating accident (The Lewiston Sun Journal)
    NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) - Divers searching for a missing fishing captain have recovered a body following an accident on a fish pier in New Bedford.

  • Boat probe continues (Port Macquarie News)
    POLICE and NSW Maritime are continuing investigations into a boating accident on Port Macquarie's bar earlier this week. Three men escaped with minor injuries after their 6m fibreglass outboard overturned while they were returning to shore on Tuesday morning.

  • More Testimony In John Special Trial (KOTV 6 Tulsa)
    Testimony resumes on Thursday in the negligent homicide trial of John Special. He's one of two men charged with killing Murray McGarvey in a boating accident on Grand Lake last July. The judge threw out the Oklahoma State Medical Examiner's testimony on Wednesday.

  • Teen sailors key to saving lives in boating accident (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
    Amateur boaters in New Orleans are praising the quick, bold work of three teen sailors, who with two adults rescued three chilled and exhausted people whose boat swamped in Lake Pontchartrain this month.

  • Will Drunken Boating Accident Change Law? (WCAX-TV Vermont)
    The death of two children in a drunken boating accident, has prompted lawmakers to look at changing how offenders are punished.

  • Elmore jury to deliberate boating death case (Montgomery Advertiser)
    An Elmore County jury today is expected to begin deliberating the fate of a man accused of manslaughter in a boating accident.

  • Babylon Village honors local heroes (Babylon Beacon)
    Two Babylon Village youths, who helped save the life of a man who was involved in a serious boating accident, were honored by the Babylon Village Board in December. The two were lifeguards at the Gilbert C. Hanse pool at the time of the incident in June, 2006.

  • Claiborne man drowns in reservoir (The Middlesboro Daily)
    TAZEWELL, Tenn. — A Claiborne County man apparently died of drowning following a boating accident on Norris Reservoir Tuesday.

  • Judge declines to reinstate felony charge in boat accident (The Fresno Bee)
    A judge has refused to reinstate a felony manslaughter charge against a Petaluma man in connection with a fatal boating accident on Lake Sonoma last spring.

  • TWRA investigating boating death on Norris Lake (Knoxville News Sentinel)
    State authorities are investigating the death of a 56-year-old man in a boating accident on Norris Lake.

  • At approximately 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 15, Bill Page, age 56 of Tazewell died in a boating accident on Norris ... (Morristown Citizen Tribune)
    The incident occurred on Norris Lake near the Needham Hollow Boat Ramp off Hwy. 33 in Claiborne County . According to witnesses, Page was trying out a new boat at the time of the accident. He went around a point of the lake and did not return.

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