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Lifejacket plea as weather warms

BOATERS are being urged to exercise caution on the water, after statistics revealed they’re more likely to drown during October than any other month in Victoria. According to Life Saving Victoria (LSV), one in six of all boating-related drowning incidents over the past two decades occurred in October, coinciding with the weather warming in spring. […]

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