There was an article in Messing About In Boats, October 15, 2002 ish, which stated that, as much as we in small boats may despise them, the PWC is here to stay.

It seems that those noisy, incompetent, dangerous people have a right not to be discriminated against. This is very much like the freedom of speech issue. If we shut them down, we create the potential to be shut down ourselves.

A simpler solution might be to convert all power boats in warm waters to jet power. That would mean that the only damage manatees would face would be from the impact of a hull clobbering them as their owners deliberately hit them for the pleasure of seeing a big, helpless, animal writhing in their wake.

The vessels to take a tribe of manatee to California already exist. they are the semiretired honeybuckets that used to take treated sewage [sludge] offshore to be dumped offshore into the Atlantic. Maybe we could dump less in an effort to dump less. That, of course would require that we eat less and become leaner and healthier.