Hayden wants skippers to take the lead
Australian sporting icon, test cricketer Matthew Hayden, has again thrown his support behind the National Marine Safety Committee's (NMSC) latest boating education campaign - so that he can pass on to boaters the lessons he learnt the ‘hard way' about sThe 2007/08 summer campaign Lifejackets - Skippers Take the Lead aims to motivate skippers to wear lifejackets and asks them to encourage their passengers to do the same.
"When you are the skipper of a boat, you've got people's lives in your hands," said Hayden.
"This campaign gives me the opportunity to demonstrate that not only do incidents happen, they happen really quickly and you have people's lives at stake," Hayden said, referring to the day a few years ago when his boat hit a wave, capsized and sank off North Stradbroke Island.
Hayden had gone out for a relaxing day of fishing with fellow cricketer Andrew Symonds and friend Trent Butler when, in a matter of minutes, they found themselves in the water without lifejackets on.
For further information, visit www.nmsc.gov.au or www.safeboating.org.au
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