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About personal watercraft use

Do you have personal watercraft (PWC) activity along your coastal zone?
If yes, do they:
Launch from your slipway / beaches
Only transit your water
Operate within your designated / managed area?
Operate in your zone without permission?

Your approach to managing and encouraging use

Do you have a PWC management plan?
What measures do you have in place to manage and or encourage PWC use?
How do you ensure that the measures in place are followed?

Guidance and advice

What guidance and advice are you aware of to help manage and encourage PWC use? (See notes for explanation)
What guidance and advice/information do you offer to your PWC users?

Access and pre-requisites

Do you operate a 'permit to ride/launch' scheme?
Does this use the RYA PWC scheme as a pre-requisite?
What do you require of PWC before giving permission to launch?
Are you aware of the RYA small craft navigation course that includes PWC users?
Does the RYA PWC scheme meet your needs for use on coastal water?
If not, please outline the key points you would like to see in a training scheme:

PWC for work use

Do you use PWC for work purposes?
Do you use the RYA scheme as part of your staff training?
Do you think that there would be a benefit from a specific /standardised lifeguard PWC training scheme?
Would you support such a scheme?
Would you consider using such a scheme?

Hire operations

Would you like there to be a specific guidance scheme for PWC hire operators?
Should this scheme include a qualification or competency aspect?
Please add any comments you have regarding the management of PWC hire operations:

Monitoring operations

Do you record information on the level of PWC activity occurring?
If so, does it include:
Numbers launching?
Numbers of permits issued?
Number and type of incidents?

For National Beach Safety Council members only

Do you deploy rangers/wardens/operational staff in a non-lifeguarding capacity on your beaches?
Do you train these staff in water rescue techniques?
Can you outline what training is given?:
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