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I want to ask you guys to send letters to your congress person and to Senator Mitch McConnell asking for the following:
Lake Cumberland and Dale Hollow Lake are no longer part of the Inland Water Shipping system. Because people ONCE shipped logs down the rivers the Coast Guard started requiring guides on these lakes to have Coast Guard Captains Licenses. With the Coast Guard being part of Homeland Security and the State of Kentucky and the State of Tennessee having Fishing Guide Licensing Requirements there is no need for the Coast Guard to work these lakes.
Basically it is a waste of Tax Payer money and Coast Guard Time.
Common Sense says that the States can take care of this without having the Coast Guard do it, costing them time and effort in the Security of the Homeland. The Coast Guard should have no jurisdiction on these lakes.
Please write to Senator McConnel and ask him to remove Lakes Cumberland and Dale Hollow from the Inland Waters Act. Guides are required to pass stringent Physicals that may preclude some guides from continuing their livelihoods on these lakes.
State Jurisdiction should be allowed on these lakes and the Coast Guard relieved of having to deal with this during a time of war.
My Letter to Senator McConnell's office:
In the history of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the State of Tennessee "NO STATE LICENSED GUIDE" has ever been involved in an accident." With the Coast Guard being part of Homeland Security, we need them taking care of Security and not wasting time chasing guides one or 2 days a year. Enforcement of the Inland Waterways regulations is a joke at best. Yet honest guides are forced to take 5 days off of work minimum to become trained and to be tested. While I do see a need for some of this, the STATE GOVERNMENT should be handling these guides and NOT the Coast Guard. We are wasting money on local issues that could go to NATIONAL SECURITY issues.
Worse yet is that the Coast Guard does not take this seriously enough to change the wording of the OATH, and the forms the guides fill out.
They are required to SWEAR at their Coast Guard Licensing that they will obey their commanding officer? They are forced to fill out forms that ask for their SEA service? There are no SEAS in Kentucky or Tennessee!
The Coast Guard is NOT providing a Safer environment on the inland lakes. They can not because no fishing guide in Kentucky or Tennesse has ever been cited or been in an accident that caused harm to a passenger. It is time to ammend the law to take waters that are not part of inland commerce out of the Coast Guards jurisdiction.
Lake Cumberland, & Dale Hollow Lake are 2 of the lakes that NO LONGER are part of the inland waters shipping system, and yet the Coast Guard requires fishing guides to be Coast Guard Approved.
Please amend the law to remove inland lakes that do NOT have access to the Sea.
Feel free to copy and send this letter to the Senator or any other person you feel should get it.
Jim Dicken
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Well, Danny it is like this. I will only answer those that have the courage to sign on this board with their real name instead of coming in here behind an alias to harass me and other folks.
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Reach, throw, row and ONLY Go into the water as a LAST Resort.
Lifeguards are all taught this little saying. It saves a lot of lives.
One suggestion for the guides. Keeping a throwable PDF is a good idea and probably a requirement on a lot of waters. Even if a lifeguard is forced to enter the water to perform a rescue they use torpedo bouys or other rescue devices between them and the potential victim. These bouys serve several functions. One they help support and then to calm down the victim. For the victim will try anything to keep thier heads above water, and that includes climbing up on top of you. And the bouy puts seperation between you and the panicked victim. Panick is the thing you have to watch out for in these emergencies.
A shepards hook is keep beside more swimming pools and it's always within easy reach. And you can jump into the water and while holding onto the boat with one hand extent a towel or other object to a person in the water.
But like Dave said it's best to stay in the boat and maneuver the boat to the guy in the water and then help him back into the boat. This is the most appropriate thing to try first if you don't have other means such as a long pole or a life bouy with a rope attached.
You never want to have two victims no matter what the case. You can't save anyone if you yourself are drowning or incapicated.
Regards,
Moose1am
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I want to know more about that thermal suit. Do you have any other inforamtion about the thermal suit? Sounds like a good idea to have one of them in the winter time.
Ive seen some dry suits that fire dept use for winter ice rescue situations but they look rather bulky to wear for fishing.
I've worn wet suits and they keep you warm but you will sweat in them and it takes a while for the water that enters inbetween your skin and the wet suit to warm up. In the winter time if you do any ice diving it helps to pour warm water into the wet suit before you jump into the icy waters. But it only helps so much. You eventually will get cold when diving in icy waters.
Regards,
Moose1am
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