3. What’s In Each Report?
•Executive Summary
•Accident Causes
•Accident Types
•Operator / Passenger Information
•Casualty Summary Data
•Registration Data
4. The Top Two Known
Causes of Death:
a. Drowning
b. Carbon Monoxide
c. Trauma
d. Hypothermia
e. Cardiac Arrest
5. Percentage of Deaths By Drowning
and PFD Wear Percentage of Victims
70 71
77 78
76
80
76 77
79
75
84 85 84 84 85
83 84.584
86 86
65
70
75
80
85
90
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Drowning No PFD
21. National Recreational Boating Safety
(RBS) Program Strategic Plan
•______________ About Strategic Plan
•National On-Water Standards
•Developed by National Boating
Safety Advisory Committee (NBSAC)
22. 2022-2026
National Recreational Boating Safety (RBS)
Program Strategic Plan
•Under development
•Reviewing NBSAC recommendations
•StrategicPlanRecBoatingSafety
@uscg.mil
23. The NRBSS Included Two Surveys
• Participation
• National
• Quarterly
• 5K responses
• 13-Page Survey Instrument
• 73-Page Survey Report
• Exposure
• By State
• Monthly
• 30K total responses, but needed to reach State totals
• 14-Page Survey Instrument
• 131-Page Survey Report
24. Boat owner?
5 in Household:
Gender?
Age?
Relation?
Hispanic?
Race?
Employment?
Income?
Marital Status?
Registered?
Documented?
Unregistered?
For up to 6 boats:
Length?
Type?
Registered?
Documented?
Owner?
> 3 Mi in 12Mo?
Stored?
State?
Zip Code?
Operational?
For up to 6 boats:
Days U/W?
Days You O/B?
Trailered there?
How many times
/ day?
Hours U/W?
Which State?
Body of Water?
You on Last
Outing?
$1
Y
or
N
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
N
N
N
N
N
Name
and
Email?
Reported?
Injuries or
Damage?
Casualty
and Type?
U/W?
You
Operate?
$10
Record
Record
Record Y Y
For up to 6 boats:
Did you operate?
Your Yrs of
Experience on Boat?
Your Yrs of
Experience on Boat
Type?
Persons 12 Yrs -?
Persons 13 Yrs +?
Life Jacket for Each?
Wearing Life Jacket
Entire Time?
Activities?
EPIRB?
PLB?
ECOS?
VHF-DSC Radio?
Y
or
N
25. Boat? 5 in Household:
Gender?
Age?
Relation?
Hispanic?
Race?
Employment?
Income?
Marital Status?
How Many
Days?
Household
Count?
By Household
Member:
Who boated?
By Household
Member:
Why Not Boat?
6 Boats:
Length?
Boat Type?
Registered?
State?
Documented?
Who Owns?
How Many Boats
Owned?
$10
$1
Y
Y
Y
Y N
N
N
N
By Household
Member:
Days Boating?
Activities?
Boat Types?
Ownership?
Operator?
How often Life
Jacket worn?
When Boating
Safety Course?
Anyone
Boat?
Own a
Boat?
Name
and
Email?
26. National Recreational
Boating Safety Survey
•NRBSS kick-off: Request for pre-solicitation technical
papers
• Summer 2022: CG-BSX plans for grantee to start work on survey
• 2022-2023: OMB/OIRA Paperwork Reduction Act clearance
•ERAC Webinars: May 10 and 12
• Goal: Educate states about the NRBSS
•Questions and Feedback? Jonathan.C.Hsieh2@uscg.mil
27. State Enforcement Data
Year Citations Warnings Total Stops Rate
2021 13,605 22,062 35,667 1,183K 3.0%
2020 14,133 21,187 35,320 1,216K 2.9%
2019 14,155 22,397 36,552 1,201K 3.0%
28. PFD Wear
• Analysis on Nature of Drownings
• Analysis of Operator and Victim
BAC for Drownings
• Enforcement Tactics to
Encourage PFD Wear
29. ROUPV
•90 days versus 360 days
•15 or 30 days in the Restricted Route
•Age of 17 (16 for Family-Owned Business)
•Reduced Exam
•Drug Test
•TWIC Enrollment
•CPR/First Aid Course
30. Engine Cut-Off Switch (ECOS) Link
Wear Requirement, 46 USC §4312
1. On a recreational vessel AND
2. Less than 26 feet AND
3. Has a motor capable of 115 pounds of static thrust
(3 HP) AND
4. On plane or above displacement speed AND
5. Equipped with an ECOS OR Built after
12/4/2019