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Your Pathways To Boating Safety Education
Getting Certified
When it comes to safely operating a motorized watercraft, Certification means a lot more than just a word.
Your PFD
Besides knowing to always put on your PFD even before you get on the dock, there’s plenty more to understand.
Getting on the Water
Before you cast off, don’t forget about what you learned in your safety course…
Boating Safety Resources
When it comes to boating safety education, nobody’s stranded alone in their boat.
Boating Safety Featured Videos
Research shows that most people learn and retain more when watching peer-driven videos.
Boating Safety Classroom Videos & Lessons
To reshape someone’s safety behavior usually requires two more key elements.
The STEM of Boating Safety
Strap on your PFDs because here’s an exclusive collection of feature videos, classroom videos and related lessons that can float the STEM boat in your classroom.
Our Mission
Providing free boating safety education with featured videos, classroom videos with lesson activities, plus boatloads of resources for your journey toward certification and a lifetime of safe boating.
Your Boating Safety Course Options
Whether online or in person, discover which boating safety courses or training best fit your needs.
Videos
Featured and Classroom Videos
Featured Videos
Discover a variety of boating safety adventures in these 25-minute educational programs seen on PBS from the Emmy-winning Into the Outdoors Education Network.
Classroom Videos
Explore and share these short videos by themselves or, watch them before taking their companion lesson activity.
Lesson Plans
Free lesson activities for teachers and homeschoolers to teach youth boating safety with correlated CC and NGS educational standards.
Savvy Saving Facts
To jumpstart your brain into learning about boating safety, see if you can decode the solutions to these crucial boating safety facts.
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Because 87% of drowning victims were not wearing a life jacket, what’s your single biggest life-saving savvy solution?
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Because 75% of deaths occurred on boats where the operator did not receive boating safety instruction, what’s your huge life-saving savvy solution?
If 3,844 boating accidents during 2023 resulted in 564 deaths, with 2,126 injuries, what’s a savvy solution to reducing those numbers?
Explore this site, watch the videos, and tap into the resources as you begin your quest to getting certified while discovering the savvy solutions to the questions above.
How You Can
Get Certified
Online Education & Certification
Completing your Boating Safety Certification with an online course will earn you your personal Boater Education Card
Boating Safety Courses
Beyond the boating safety smarts you’ll earn with certification, a variety of online and in-person boating safety courses can help you navigate the safe operation of various watercrafts and situations.
