Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Yesterday I read an article that made me laugh at first, but then I realized that Marine Patrol is as well important as the regular police department on our roads. The article said that for the summer the New Hampshire Marine Patrol was working on implementing speed limits in two zones of Lake Winnipesaukee.
Boaters will face a 45 mph limit by day and 25 mph limit by night in two large zones near Rattlesnake and Bear Islands. But for now it is unknown if tickets will be issued and what is more important, how officers will be able to properly notify boaters if they are in a speed limit zone. Currently, there are no speed limits on the state lakes.
The difficulty is that the majority of the traffic goes one way or the other, which separates speed zones from other areas of the lake where traffic is going in all directions. So, in other locations it would be much harder to run a radar guns and collect data.
The marine patrol department currently has three radar guns, and now it is in the process of training officers to properly use them. If you are wondering what kind of radar guns marine patrol will use, and if there exist marine radar guns, then I'll tell you that marine patrol department said to be using standard hand-held police radar guns. They said, that these radar guns won't work as well as on highways, but they'll still do their job.