A
boating accident can easily kill innocent bystanders, either those on
another boat (especially when one notes that boating traffic is frequently
of MUCH higher density than air traffic) or on the shore.

Those on another boat are not "innocent" - they are guilty of boating,
that is to say, of accepting the risk of waterborne navigation. Those
on the shore are innocent, but I do not see as great a potential for
hurting shore people. One would have to be reckless, such as
powerboating into a beach. In an aircraft, "oops" can kill those on the
ground. In a boat I think this is much less likely.

That said, dead is dead no matter how it occurs.

Jose
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