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<blockquote data-quote="DaveInGA" data-source="post: 285269" data-attributes="member: 166"><p>Yes, 12 volts with enough amps provided through heavy gauge wiring can kill you. Not only that, but a boat motor that's still running when you got knocked overboard (knocked out perhaps and are helpless), can run over you, crush your skull, cut off and arm or less (or both) and kill you easily. If that wasn't enough, a running motor on a boat with no driver can leave you stranded in big water with the shore a long way off, perhaps no life jacket, the boat can ram other boats, hit debris in the water/near shore, destroy/damage the boat and motor, perhaps sink.</p><p></p><p>Lots of negative things can happen without a working kill switch, which was designed to prevent as many of those events from occurring as possible. Why was the kill switch designed in the first place?</p><p></p><p>BECAUSE THOSE NEGATIVE EVENTS WERE ACTUALLY HAPPENING AND PEOPLE WERE ACTUALLY GETTING KILLED! For goodness sake people, learn from the mistakes and deaths of others.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DaveInGA, post: 285269, member: 166"] Yes, 12 volts with enough amps provided through heavy gauge wiring can kill you. Not only that, but a boat motor that's still running when you got knocked overboard (knocked out perhaps and are helpless), can run over you, crush your skull, cut off and arm or less (or both) and kill you easily. If that wasn't enough, a running motor on a boat with no driver can leave you stranded in big water with the shore a long way off, perhaps no life jacket, the boat can ram other boats, hit debris in the water/near shore, destroy/damage the boat and motor, perhaps sink. Lots of negative things can happen without a working kill switch, which was designed to prevent as many of those events from occurring as possible. Why was the kill switch designed in the first place? BECAUSE THOSE NEGATIVE EVENTS WERE ACTUALLY HAPPENING AND PEOPLE WERE ACTUALLY GETTING KILLED! For goodness sake people, learn from the mistakes and deaths of others. [/QUOTE]
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