BoatInsurance.org (Anything Boat, Summer, Beach Related)
http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/outdoors/bal-sp.boatingdeaths23sep23,0,2155000.story
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gflMrL598yIuSAZk6a-ws5R67XEg
Why people don't head severe weather warnings:
http://www.sailmiami.com/magazine/boating_lifestyle/hurricane_preparedness_study.shtml
Recently there was a tsunami warning, stemming from the earthquakes that shook American Samoa, which strongly indicated that people should get the heck away from the beaches in LA.http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/09/officials-had-predicted-that-some-beaches-could-experience-higher-than-normal-tides-around-9-pm-in-the-los-angeles-area-th.html
Despite this advice, people still flocked to the beach--some out of apathy towards the warning, others to view the excitement for themselves. I also remember impishly refusing to head jelly-fish or rip-tide warnings when we wanted to boogie-board in Hawaii and sure weren't going to listen to some stupid sign. Why is it people do this? Why are we so inclined to think that we know best, certainly better than those so called "experts"? This seems at odd with the many psychological experiments which routinely suggest that the average person will do anything--even harm an innocent person--if a person in a lab coat tells them to do it.
Why people don't head severe weather warnings:
http://www.sailmiami.com/magazine/boating_lifestyle/hurricane_preparedness_study.shtml
Recently there was a tsunami warning, stemming from the earthquakes that shook American Samoa, which strongly indicated that people should get the heck away from the beaches in LA.http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/09/officials-had-predicted-that-some-beaches-could-experience-higher-than-normal-tides-around-9-pm-in-the-los-angeles-area-th.html
Despite this advice, people still flocked to the beach--some out of apathy towards the warning, others to view the excitement for themselves. I also remember impishly refusing to head jelly-fish or rip-tide warnings when we wanted to boogie-board in Hawaii and sure weren't going to listen to some stupid sign. Why is it people do this? Why are we so inclined to think that we know best, certainly better than those so called "experts"? This seems at odd with the many psychological experiments which routinely suggest that the average person will do anything--even harm an innocent person--if a person in a lab coat tells them to do it.
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