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Originally Posted by Sliver
I don't get this. Whenever I go boating with my friends, they look at me like I'm a complete nerd when I put on a life jacket. I know how to swim just fine, but I still don't trust myself to make it back to shore if something happened or if I was injured in a boating accident. It seems really stupid to get into a boat without a life jacket no matter how well you can swim.
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I rarely wear one on a ski boat, only when wakeboarding, tubing, and waterskiing.
Last year a guy drown in Chestermere lake, he couldn't swim and went tubing with no life jacket. That's some higher stakes tubing than I'm used to.