Last year Colorado saw a record 40 recreation-related drownings, and while some of those were caused by natural events such as flooding, 17 were related to boating. The previous record of 34 was set in 2020.
even though he was wearing a personal flotation device and a helmet.)
That’s one reason the life vest was so important, Brown explained. Cold-water immersion is a leading cause of drowning fatalities. Boating under the influence arrests on Colorado lakes are rare. Brown said there were only 13 in Colorado last year, but impaired boating remains a concern, and CPW rangers are trained to detect it.
“He catches every line of all the fishing poles, pulls them all in,” Brown said. “He hits a buoy and falls off. He gets on his jet ski and just keeps going. We get a patrol boat and he is so drunk, he’s stumbling around. His friends are like, ‘We told him not to get on the jet ski.’ You’ll get one or two of those every year, crazy, so drunk.”
“We go off our observations and make an arrest,” Brown said. “Once you decide to choose one of those tests, you’re going to be put in handcuffs, like a DUI. We’ll take you to the jail and either do the breath test or a blood draw. You are booked into the jail. You do have to bond out. It does have the same bond as a DUI.”
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