“Paddle boarders and Kayakers and Wave Runners/Jet skis are invisible to large fast boats, just like motorcycles...................”
They are the bicyclists of the waterways.
Back when I had my boat, we came upon a paddle-boarder LAYING DOWN ON HIS BOARD ASLEEP in the middle of a busy waterway. Had I not been paying strict attention, we would have ran him over...........
And AF Major was killed on a kayak AT NIGHT in the Gulf a few years back, the authorities theorize he was run over by a big power boat that probably didn’t even know they had................