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Duck Boat Capsizes in Missouri during storm, 17 de...
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In a well presented, to the point, Letter to the Editor, HCC's own Frank Ort wrote compelling reasons to wear a life jacket in today's (7/26) Houston Chronicle titled "Safety on the Water"   - attached
As we continually stress in the Houston Canoe Club, we need to be thinking of safety whenever we go out on the water. The videos of the Duck Boats in the storm are horrendous and a reminder that we need to think about cancelling a trip on the water if the weather is threatening.
The Safety Minute for December 2015 talked about it.
http://houstoncanoeclub.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=496051&module_id=191762
Be aware, even if it is somebody else's trip, and somebody else's boat.
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