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On Oct 15, 10:14*am, (Richard Casady)
wrote:
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:53:18 -0400, "jamesgangnc"
wrote:

There really is not much
in the area of protecting people from the prop. *While few of these
accidents happen the results are horrific. *Prop guards reduce performance a
lot so it needs to be some sort of engine kill.


Jet boats.

Casady


Jet boats are less efficient, I'm not sure that they would be any
better that a regular prop with a prop guard in that analysis. But
certainly they are a whole lot safer and have a number of other
valuable attributes like shallow water operation.