Lightning Safety While Boating

Over the last 10 years, thunderstorms and lightning activity have caused 312 deaths in the U.S., 246 males and 66 females. 21% of those deadly strikes occurred on or near a body of water, either fishing, boating or some related activity. The problem is that these folks weren’t being careless or reckless, like many of us, they were just uninformed of the dangers and frequency that lighting strikes kill. Lightning deaths have increased annually in each of the last 3 years, with 39 deaths...