Wear the Kill Switch or Risk Being Killed

If a ‘picture is worth a thousand words,’ what’s a video worth? No matter how many times mariners are warned about the dangers of not wearing an outboard kill-switch cord around their wrists when operating their outboard-powered inflatables, the message doesn’t seem to get through.

Perhaps the accompanying video will help to change that. Shot at Salt Rock Beach in South Africa last year, it shows a surf rescue team’s problems and illustrates far more than words ever could just how dangerous an outboard dinghy on the loose can be — and for how long. In this case it was about three minutes. Fortunately nobody was killed, but as you can see, that was just a matter of luck. Please be careful out there!

Video courtesy Ballito Fail