Many teens spend their summer days splashing around in one of the South Florida’s majestic waterways. The days are meant to be wild and carefree, but sometimes the summer days can turn deadly. Yesterday, two teenage girls were tubing in the intercoastal waterway near Tampa Bay when they crashed into…
Florida is the nation’s leading boating state, with almost one million registered boats. However, that also makes Florida one of the top ten states for boating accidents. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission released its annual report on 2011 boating accidents and deaths today, revealing a staggering number of…
While visiting Philadelphia with their church group two years ago, two Hungarian students decided to take a sightseeing tour of the city down the Delaware River and boarded the Ride the Ducks duck boat. As the 33-foot-long boat made its way down the river, it eventually anchored itself in an…
Last November, Joey Gratton and Stephen Page were racing towards victory in the Key West Super Boat World Championship when disaster struck in the final law of the race–Gratton and Page’s 38-foot catamaran overturned as the drivers rounded the first turn. Page was able to exit the boat through an…
A 25-foot Hydra Sports center console boat hit a seawall along South Ocena Drive just north of the Hallandale Bridge, killing a South Florida man. The boat crashed into the seawall so hard that it broke through the seawall and hit the seawall on the opposite side. Forty-one year old…
On Sunday, seventeen year-old Coral Springs resident Randolph Bieszcazk was inside a South Florida canal with two of his friends enjoying a day in the sun and on the boat. According to witnesses and the police, Bieszczak was riding on an inner tube that was being hauled by the boat…
A Cape Coral man was charged by the Florida State Attorney’s office for operating a boat under the influence. The man was operating a 37-foot boat with two other passengers when he crashed the boat into a seawall on Coral Point Drive. The boat was launched into the air and…
Florida is known for its great weather and outdoor activities. One of these popular activities in Florida, especially in Miami Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe County includes boating and swimming. Steven Posner and a friend both died in a tragic boat accident on November 29, 2010, on a beautiful…