A boating safety enforcement project on the Missouri and Big Sioux rivers near Sioux City over the weekend resulted in six arrests including five for boating while intoxicated and one for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated.
The joint project between the Iowa Department of Natural Resources and the South Dakota Game Fish and Parks conducted [...]
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5 BWIs Handed out over the weekend in Sioux City
Trip 08: Weekend at Rathbun Lake Marina
Its official. I’m too freggin’ old to sleep on the floor of a boat. Its Monday and I only had to sleep on the floor one night, but it was too much. But I can still feel that one night as I type right now.
Friday
It was unbelievably cold all weekend, the 60’s, in July? Its [...]
New Iowa Boating Regulation
As of May 2009 Iowa made wearing a safety vest for those boaters under age 13 mandatory. There is an exemption for commercial boats with a capacity of 25 people or more or while in an enclosed cabin and below deck.
This one snuck by me, I didn’t realize kids now are required to WEAR [...]
Construction worker dangling from a crane plucks woman trapped in Des Moines River
A construction worker dangles from a crane, his arm stretched out to reach a terrified woman trapped in swirling water at the base of a dam. These astonishing images show the dramatic rescue of the woman after her boat overturned near the dam on the Des Moines River in Iowa. She was pulled to safety [...]