For decades boat manufacturers have equipped boats with an emergency cut off switch. The emergency cut off switch lanyard, or ECOS-L, connects the engine ignition system to a life vest or belt loop, so if the operator leaves the helm while underway the lanyard is pulled and the motor stops. Congress recently passed a law making it mandatory to use an engine cut-off device whenever on plane in a boat under 26 feet.
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00:02 Emergency cutoff switches have been
00:12 an important safety device for decades.
00:15 If you fall overboard when you're wearing one,
00:17 it cuts the engine off.
00:19 If you don't wear it, the engine keeps running
00:21 and the boat may circle around and circle around
00:24 for hours until it runs out of fuel,
00:26 or until somebody else, a good Samaritan,
00:28 plays cowboy and jumps aboard and shuts it down.
00:31 In the meantime, you could be run over by your own boat
00:34 or your own boat could crash into somebody else's boat
00:37 or dock or shore.
00:39 - That boat the man was thrown from
00:41 continued to do circles in the water at full speed,
00:45 causing a dangerous situation for everyone involved.
00:48 - Wear your emergency cutoff switch at all times
00:51 while the boat is operating.
00:53 Now the wireless switches are really handy for big crews.
00:57 What they do is they enable you to monitor everybody
01:00 on board passively and if somebody falls off,
01:03 and it can happen, the motor stops,
01:05 sets a man overboard point,
01:07 and you can circle back to them easily.
01:10 Make sure you wear your engine cutoff safety lanyard
01:12 when you're in the boat,
01:14 and when you got some squirrely crew people on board,
01:17 put one of these on 'em as well.
01:19 You never know when they wanna take a swim.
01:21 I'm Randy Vance, wear your emergency cutoff switch.
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