"Thank *goodness* I was not wearing my safety/kill switch lanyard!"
05-08-2006, 04:07 PM
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Re: "Thank *goodness* I was not wearing my safety/kill switch lanyard!"
I Lost a good friend when he was thrown and the boat circled and hit him.....never boat with out it on.
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05-08-2006, 05:54 PM
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Re: "Thank *goodness* I was not wearing my safety/kill switch lanyard!"
Originally Posted by PhantomChaos
Who said that? What's this about? 
http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/s...d.php?t=129481
05-08-2006, 06:27 PM
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Re: "Thank *goodness* I was not wearing my safety/kill switch lanyard!"
Originally Posted by super termoli
I've heard it regarding seatbelts in cars. People who survived after being thrown out of a car so badly mangled that it looks very unlikely they would have made it if they had stayed buckled up behind the wheel.
But as far as lanyards are concerned, never and I really can't imagine what 1 in a zillion freak circumstance would make anyone say something like that...
But as far as lanyards are concerned, never and I really can't imagine what 1 in a zillion freak circumstance would make anyone say something like that...
05-08-2006, 06:30 PM
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Re: "Thank *goodness* I was not wearing my safety/kill switch lanyard!"
I look at it just like putting your seat belt on in the car.
EVERYTIME
I bet this guy wished he was wearing is also!
Funny how trees really distroy fiberglass!
EVERYTIME
I bet this guy wished he was wearing is also!
Funny how trees really distroy fiberglass!
05-08-2006, 06:34 PM
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Re: "Thank *goodness* I was not wearing my safety/kill switch lanyard!"
Originally Posted by Dock Holiday
I look at it just like putting your seat belt on in the car.
EVERYTIME
I bet this guy wished he was wearing is also!
Funny how trees really distroy fiberglass!
EVERYTIME
I bet this guy wished he was wearing is also!
Funny how trees really distroy fiberglass!
(See my point yet?)
05-08-2006, 06:38 PM
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Re: "Thank *goodness* I was not wearing my safety/kill switch lanyard!"
Seatbelts and life jackets most directly protect you and the occupants of the said vehicle/boat.
The kill switch/safety lanyards protect EVERYONE. You can correlate the habit with putting on the seatbelt as in religeously, but the safety benefit is radically different.
Its virtually the same as a particular Virginia driving law; such that when its raining to the point that your windshield wipers are on, your headlights need to be on; by law. This is not so the operator of said car can see better, its so others in the vicinity can improve their chances of seeing the said car better; thus improving their own safety.
The kill switch/safety lanyards protect EVERYONE. You can correlate the habit with putting on the seatbelt as in religeously, but the safety benefit is radically different.
Its virtually the same as a particular Virginia driving law; such that when its raining to the point that your windshield wipers are on, your headlights need to be on; by law. This is not so the operator of said car can see better, its so others in the vicinity can improve their chances of seeing the said car better; thus improving their own safety.
05-08-2006, 07:03 PM
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Re: "Thank *goodness* I was not wearing my safety/kill switch lanyard!"
Originally Posted by CustomRigger101
bro that's just wrong.. funner than hell.. but just wrong
05-08-2006, 07:15 PM
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Re: "Thank *goodness* I was not wearing my safety/kill switch lanyard!"
Originally Posted by Sydwayz
Seatbelts and life jackets most directly protect you and the occupants of the said vehicle/boat.
The kill switch/safety lanyards protect EVERYONE. You can correlate the habit with putting on the seatbelt as in religeously, but the safety benefit is radically different.
Its virtually the same as a particular Virginia driving law; such that when its raining to the point that your windshield wipers are on, your headlights need to be on; by law. This is not so the operator of said car can see better, its so others in the vicinity can improve their chances of seeing the said car better; thus improving their own safety.
The kill switch/safety lanyards protect EVERYONE. You can correlate the habit with putting on the seatbelt as in religeously, but the safety benefit is radically different.
Its virtually the same as a particular Virginia driving law; such that when its raining to the point that your windshield wipers are on, your headlights need to be on; by law. This is not so the operator of said car can see better, its so others in the vicinity can improve their chances of seeing the said car better; thus improving their own safety.
How about the VA law that limits speed to 65 on the road. You adhere to that too?
05-08-2006, 07:42 PM
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Re: "Thank *goodness* I was not wearing my safety/kill switch lanyard!"
MY feeling is a lanyard is appropiate if your are on a run or going to be running a speed. There are many times we use our boat and don't always run at speed.As for seat belts I where one know only because it is the law and the stats say it saves lives but I would be dead today if I wore one on a summer day in 1992 when I was t-boned by a 18 wheeler that ran a red light at 65 mph drove me 1/2 mile down the road and pushed me into the bay Thank god for low tide the medics woke me up chest high water in the cab Drivers door pushed to tanny hump if restrained I would be dead. Sysco foods to be exact bastards lawerys ate us alive but thats another thred I am sure. So I guess I use them don't like them but at high speeds use them both!
