Boating Safety Campaigns

• Calendar of Events
  Find out about boating safety and education events and recreational boating facility meetings or activities happening in your area each month.
• AquaSMART Kids' Pages
  Cal Boating's aquatic and boating safety education program provides curriculum materials to more than 350,000 students each year at no charge. The series is divided into four parts, for grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and high school.
• Boating Safety Videos
  Cal Boating offers brief video programs for all ages that can stand alone or enhance our written materials. They cover boating education, water safety, personal watercraft operation and common safety problems.
• Environmentality Challenge
  Hosted by Disney, Jiminy Cricket's Environmentality Challenge encourages students to think and act environmentally at school, at home, and in the community. Cal Boating is one of many state agencies that have partnered with Disney to facilitate this successful program.
• Responsibility Campaign
  Cal Boating conducts a multimedia boating safety awareness campaign to raise awareness of safety concerns and reduce accidents. Radio messages, billboards, all-weather posters, and marina trash receptacles promote the "If it's YOUR boat, it's YOUR responsibility" theme.
• National Safe Boating Campaign
  National Safe Boating Week is an annual event sponsored by the National Safe Boating Council, in partnership with the U.S. Coast Guard and the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators to promote boating safety.
• Safe Boating Week
  May 17-23, 2008
  Cal Boating works to spread the message about boating safely during National Safe Boating Week by providing material to boating educators, working with media outlets, and co-sponsoring local boating safety events.
• Tri-State Boating Safety Fair
  May 5, 2007
  The three states that border the Colorado River - California, Arizona and Nevada - jointly host an annual event to promote safety along the Colorado River System, which has a high number of boating accidents each year.
• Lakes and Reservoirs Appreciation Week
  Lakes and reservoirs provide a stable, clean water supply, irrigation, hydroelectric generation and flood control. As recreation areas, they also offer a variety of outdoor activities such as opportunities for camping, boating, fishing, swimming, and waterskiing.