“Know your entire surroundings before you ever put that boat into gear,” Meltzer said. “There’s a lot of times people get hurt.” Meltzer, a four-year veteran of the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office marine unit, said the most common problem he encounters isn’t criminal, it’s negligence. Boaters push throttles forward on unfamiliar vessels and take river corners too fast, not accounting for what might be coming the other way. “There’s not really…
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