When Australian surfer Bob Aitkin ended up with two slashed arteries after a new surfer fired his rental board right back into Bob he ended up with huge medical bills and a few idea about people learning to surf and rental boards in general.
“I think all hire boards should carry large identification stickers so it’s easy to see where they were hired from should there be an incident. . . And maybe people hiring boards should pay a couple of dollars extra for some sort of insurance – just like you do when you hire a car.’’
Great ideas, but wouldn’t it be simpler to just require that all new surfers wear one of these?
[Link: The Australian]
