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Brunswick Misled Two Federal Courts on Frequency of Propeller Accidents

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· Tuesday, July 5th, 2011 at 05:46 PM 
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Brunswick requested a rehearing of the Jacob Brochtrup v. Mercury Marine and Sea Ray propeller injury case before the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on June 10, 2011. Mercury Marine and Sea Ray are both divisions of Brunswick. On page three of Brunswick’s formal request for a rehearing, Brunswick faults Brochtrup for not providing […]

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Does the Risk-Utility Test Exception for Simple Tools Apply to Boat Propellers?

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· Monday, July 4th, 2011 at 05:14 PM 
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In mid 2011, Brunswick requested a rehearing of their appeal of the Jacob Brochtrup propeller injury case in front of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Brunswick feels the original court (U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas, Austin) did not force Brochtrup to prove the design of their boat was unreasonably dangerous under […]

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Use of Wordles in Studying Propeller Safety

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· Friday, July 1st, 2011 at 01:35 AM 
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Wordles are a form of word art. They display the frequency of use of individual words in a passage of text by the relative font size of the word in an image. The individual words are displayed all jumbled together in colorful, eye pleasing collection of fonts and colors. As we view wordles, we begin […]

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Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in Modeling & Testing of Propeller Guards

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· Tuesday, June 28th, 2011 at 04:53 PM 
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We have been promoting the use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in the development of prop guards for a long time. It’s been on our Help Us page for several years, we mentioned CFD in our January 2009 post on a Propeller Guard With Reduced Drag, and just a few days ago we briefly discussed […]

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The Emperor Has No Boat – SUNY Propeller Guard Testing

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· Saturday, June 25th, 2011 at 08:58 PM 
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CED Investigative Technologies, Inc. has been testing the human factors of propeller guards at State University of New York (SUNY) Buffalo at their Center for Research in Education and Special Environments (CRESE) facility. Some may recall, this is the same facility used by Mercury Marine and Outboard Marine Corporation to test a propeller guard back […]

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Brochtrup Wins Mercury Propeller Case Appeal

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· Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 at 09:05 PM 
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On May 27, 2011 Jacob Brochtrup won his propeller accident case again. This time his legal team led by Robert “Robby” Alden of Byrd Davis Furman defeated an appeal by Mercury Marine and Sea Ray (both Brunswick companies) in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans, Louisiana. Brochtrup first won […]

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Propeller Guard Information Center Launches PropellerSafety.com Today

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· Monday, June 20th, 2011 at 06:12 PM 
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To those not familiar with us, we are an advocate for recreational boat propeller safety and cover all aspects of recreational boat propeller accidents, propeller guards, and other propeller safety devices. After months of work, today (20 June 2011), we launched PropellerSafety.com . We updated the content previously on our Propeller Guard Information Center site, […]

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Propeller Safety Year in Review 2010

Posted by Gary 
· Thursday, June 16th, 2011 at 10:44 AM 
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A review of the major events in propeller safety in 2010 including safety meetings, accidents, legal cases, deaths of those involved in the movement, statistics, patents, articles published, public service announcements, anniversaries, and other related events. This is our first year to put together a history like this and we look forward to it becoming […]

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Propeller Guard Paradox Defense Defeated by Uncle Milton’s Ant Farm

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· Thursday, June 16th, 2011 at 09:43 AM 
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From the mid 1990’s up to December 2002, the boating industry relied upon Federal Preemption as their primary defense in propeller accident cases. The industry said that since the U.S. Coast Guard did not require propeller guards on all boats, then individual states could not require them to have been on the boat involved in […]

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Propeller Safety & Propeller Guard News Prior to June 2011

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· Monday, May 16th, 2011 at 08:18 PM 
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Propeller Safety & Propeller Guard Events, Meetings, and Major Developments Prior to June 2011 when we moved to our new format. 26 Jan 2011 – we received a note from ABYC yesterday on the upcoming Propeller Injury Accident Mitigation Workshop at the Miami International Boat Show on February 17, 2011 from 4pm to 5:25pm. Their […]

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