Georgia Rangers To Crack Down on Drunk Boating This Weekend

Release: Georgia Department of Natural Resources

This weekend, Georgia DNR Law Enforcement Rangers will participate, as they do every year, in Operation Dry Water, an education and enforcement initiative that includes thousands of other law enforcement agencies across the nation. The focus is on reducing the number of accidents and fatalities related to boating under the influence (BUI).

Check out this video on the Georgia DNR Law Enforcement's Facebook page.

Despite the fact that it's against the law nationwide for a person to operate a recreational vessel with an unlawful blood alcohol concentration (0.08 or higher in Georgia), BUI continues to be a problem across the U.S. Rangers have made 73 BUI arrests so far this year on state waterways in Georgia.

Don't put yourself and others at risk by boating impaired! And remember, a drunk boater becomes a drunk driver and vice versa.

Boat safe, boat sober! For more information, visit www.operationdrywater.org

For more information about boating in Georgia, visit http://www.gadnrle.org/ and click on the “Boating” tab.