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Houseboating group urges parents to use alarm device for children
Vancouver Sun. August 22, 2005.

The Shuswap Houseboating Association has ordered a new safety device that it says will help prevent the deaths of children on houseboats. The so-called safety turtles are small bracelets with a monitor that attach to a child's arm and sounds an alarm if they fall into water. The move comes after a two-year-old girl died earlier this month when she pushed open a screen door on a houseboat and fell into Shuswap Lake while her parents were sleeping. Howie Cyr, president of the Shuswap Houseboating Association, said he doesn't know whether companies that rent out houseboats would make it mandatory for children to wear the devices. "We're certainly encouraging parents to utilize it when they're here, but here again, we can't make them put them on," he said.

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