"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
How would you draft a "Federal" law, then. to cover all eventualities?
Locally the water temperature is well over 80 degrees Fahrenheit....
some days higher than the air temperature. Would you then require
both flotation and (properly buoyed) bottled water to prevent the
inevitable dehydration? Water, water, everywhere and not a drop to
drink????

Not to mention a combination satellite phone/VHF/GPS/EPIRB.