Please see below (after the transcript and show notes) for links to news and upcoming events.
TRANSCRIPT
From the Cumberland Gap to the Atlantic Ocean, this is
Virginia Water Radio for the week of May 21, 2012.
This week, we feature another series of mystery sounds. Have a
listen for about 15 seconds, and see if you can guess what kind of water activity,
where those sounds are heard, is the goal of a special week in late May.
SOUND.
If you guessed safe boating, you’re right! Those were boats on Virginia’s New River on
May 19, the first day of National Safe
Boating Week for 2012. As part of
the activities for the week, the National Safe Boating Council and the National
Weather Service have produced a series of public service messages on
recreational boating safety. Let’s have
a listen for about 30 seconds to the message on one of the most important boater-safety topics—life jackets.
SOUND: SAFE BOATING
COUNCIL/NWS PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT.
Besides this and other
information from the National Safe Boating Council, plenty of
information on what you should do—and what
you are required to do—to stay safe
on the water is available from the U.S. Coast Guard and from the Virginia
Department of Game and Inland Fisheries.
According to the Coast Guard, over 240,000 motor boats were registered
in Virginia in 2011, and of course thousands of canoes, sailboats, and other
non-motorized boats also use Virginia waters.
If you plan to be in one of these vessels, please make sure that you know
how to have a safe voyage.
For other water sounds and music, and for more Virginia
water information, visit our Web site at virginiawaterradio.org,
or call us at (540) 231-5463. From the
Virginia Water Resources Research Center in Blacksburg, I’m Alan Raflo,
thanking you for listening, and wishing you health, wisdom, and good water.
SHOW NOTES
Acknowledgments and Sources: The public service
announcement audio on life jackets was taken from the National Weather
Service’s Web site http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/marine/safeboating/,
5/21/12. Information on boat
registrations in Virginia was taken from the U.S. Coast Guard report,
“Recreational Boat Statistics 2011,” available online (as PDF) at http://www.uscgboating.org/assets/1/workflow_staging/Publications/557.PDF,
5/21/12. More information on
recreational boating safety is available from the National Safe Boating
Council’s Web site at http://www.safeboatingcouncil.org/,
from the U.S. Coast Guard’s “Boating Safety Resource Center” Web site at http://www.uscgboating.org/, and from
the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries’ “Boating” Web site and
the “Virginia Watercraft Owner’s Guide” at http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/boating/.
Recent Virginia Water
News
For
news relevant to Virginia's water resources, please visit the Virginia Water Central News Grouper,
available online at http://vawatercentralnewsgrouper.wordpress.com/.
Water Meetings and
Other Events
For
events related to Virginia's water resources, please visit the Quick Guide to Virginia Water–related
Conferences, Workshops, and Other Events, online at http://virginiawaterevents.wordpress.com/. The site includes a list of Virginia
government policy and regulatory meetings occurring in the coming week.
