What You've Learned
You've completed the material of Unit 5 of the online boating safety course!
You should now:
- Understand how to practice risk management while boating
- Understand the effects of boating stressors
- Understand how dehydration occurs and how to recognize and prevent it
- Understand the increased effects of alcohol on the water
- Be able to properly size a PFD for a wearer and check a PFD's condition
- Know how to avoid collisions
- Be able to take the proper safety actions if a boat capsizes, is swamped, or runs aground
- Be able to respond properly to a fire emergency
- Be able to prevent and respond properly to cold water immersion
- Know how to prevent and be able to recognize the symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning
- Be able to obtain weather forecasts, recognize weather warnings, and know what to do if caught in severe weather