18TH ANNUAL International Boating & Water Safety Summit NASHVILLE,NASHVILLE, TNTN PROCEEDINGS MONDAY, APRIL 14 – THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2014 A joint program sponsored by the National Water Safety Congress (NWSC) and the National Safe Boating Council (NSBC). Let’s Get Social! Offcial hashtag: #IBWSS14 Rely on us for safety education products and data management applications. Contact: Mitch Strobl
[email protected] 214-437-9900 kalkomey.com International Boating & Water Safety Summit Dear Fellow IBWSS Participants: The National Water Safety Congress and the National Safe Boating Council are pleased to bring you the Proceedings from the 18th International Boating and Water Safety Summit (IBWSS), held in Nashville, Tennessee, April 14 – 17, 2014. More than 230 boating and water safety professionals from the U.S., Canada, Japan, and New Zealand attended and engaged in this year’s IBWSS, sharing knowledge and techniques during general and seminar sessions. With a variety of topics covered during the sessions, the IBWSS is helpful to anyone involved with boating and water safety and offers attendees the fexibility to create their own unique agenda to meet their own specifc needs. The sessions provided a focus on The Strategic Plan of the National Recreational Boating Safety (RBS) Program and implementation opportunities. For additional information on any segment of the IBWSS, contact the presenter listed with the session. (Contact information for all IBWSS attendees is listed in alphabetical order beginning on page 28.) The 19th annual IBWSS will be held at the Grand Sandestin Hotel in Destin, Florida, Sunday, March 29 through Wednesday, April 1, 2015. We encourage you to put this event on your calendar.