Marine CO Safety

Please be aware of open air carbon monoxide poisoning – deaths in the USA – boats/swim platforms

UC Bearcats midfielder Ally Sidloski, 21, drowned at East Fork Lake in Ohio on May 22 2021. She’d been hanging onto a swim platform. Inquest not yet held.
https://tinyurl.com/b6hvpz4m

Little Andy Free, aged nine, had been “curled up” at the back of his family’s Malibu Skier at Lake Eufaula in Oklahoma in early June 2020, “slowly dying” of open air carbon monoxide poisoning his devastated mom wrote on Facebook
https://tinyurl.com/yv5ndsj7

Afton Taylor died in June 2019 in Northeast Ohio after carbon monoxide poisoning on a routine boat trip: his parents want to warn others
https://tinyurl.com/uzjuezux

Please see this information from the Boat Safety Scheme

Carbon Monoxide Alarms for Boats:
https://www.boatsafetyscheme.org/media/294453/bss-co-alarm-guide-2019-comp.pdf

New Carbon Monoxide Requirements Handout
https://www.boatsafetyscheme.org/stay-safe-advice/carbon-monoxide-co/
https://www.boatsafetyscheme.org/media/296735/BSS-COAR-Handout-21Mar2019-reduced-size.pdf

Please see Jersey Maritime Safety Series – Ports of Jersey (podbean.com)