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CLEVELAND - The Ninth Coast Guard District is releasing the Great Lakes Recreational Boating and Water Safety Campaign Plan, establishing the overall policy for the Coast Guard's recreational boating safety and water safety campaign within the Great Lakes region.

Rear Adm. Michael N. Parks, commander of the Ninth Coast Guard District, presented the plan Thursday afternoon at a Chicago news conference in which local, state and federal agencies came together to emphasize safe boating and swimming strategies during National Safe Boating Week, the Memorial Day weekend, and leading into the summer.

At the news conference, the Coast Guard partnered with the Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications, Chicago Police Department, Chicago Fire Department, Chicago Park District, Illinois Conservation Police and more than a dozen regional boating industry associations.

"Simply put, this campaign plan is about saving lives and preventing - preventable marine accidents," Parks said.? "Besides being the designated coordinator of the national recreational boating safety program, the Coast Guard has a moral imperative to use our unique skill-sets and professional training to assist those who use our nation's waterways for work or play."

The overall goal of the campaign plan is to reduce recreational boating and recreational water fatalities.

The seven objectives under the plan are:

• Boating Safety Outreach;
  • deliver effective boating safety messages through various educational resources and media to reduce deaths and injuries of recreational boaters
• Life Jacket Wear;
  • increase adult life jacket wear rates throughout the Great Lakes region
• Operator Compliance, Navigation Rules;
  • reduce fatalities associated with navigation rules violations
• Boating Under the Influence;
  • achieve an overall decrease in number of recreational boating deaths where the use of alcohol or drugs by a boat's operator and/or occupants was either a direct or indirect cause
• Public Education Courses;
  • increase the number of Coast Guard Auxiliary hours devoted to public boating education courses offered within the Great Lakes region by 10 percent over the previous year's total hours, with target thresholds broken down by quarter
• Operator Compliance, Federal Carriage Requirements;
  • increase compliance levels for specific required safety equipment on recreational boats
• Water Safety Outreach
  • deliver effective water safety messages through various educational resources and media to reduce deaths and injuries among swimmers, non-boating recreational users and winter sports enthusiasts within the Great Lakes region

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