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In addition to wearing your PFD you should ALWAYS have your kill lanyard attached. I fish my local river which is shallow and rocky. So there are a lot of jet boats, mine included. Had a buddy of mine last year hit a log while catfishing running his outboard jet at about dusk. Tore a hole in his hull big enough to fit my head in and threw him out of the boat instantly. No life jacket and no kill lanyard. The boat did circles around him until it filled up enough with water to flood the outboard and shut it off. He made it to shore, but was pretty beat up and lucky to be alive. I work in an Orthopaedic office and had a patient just the other week who hit a rock while running his small jon boat with a 9.9 HP prop. He was also thrown from the boat with no life jacket and no kill lanyard. It doesn't take much speed or a large boat to get tossed when you hit something. The prop got his foot and made a nasty mess of it. Needed surgery to repair fractures, torn tendons and ligaments. Not so sure he would have survived if his buddies weren't right there with their boats as well.
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Originally Posted by CliffordN
It is easy to do I wear one also, best money I ever spent. no I haven't done that YET !!
