Surfboards to be given same legal status as merchant shipping!

What are they thinking?! SUP's maybe fall in to the tanker category but sheesh!

Taken from the Times online:
"Canoes, surfboards and dinghies are to be given the same legal status as cruise liners and oil tankers in a clampdown on reckless behaviour at sea.

Unpowered craft including sailboards and bodyboards are to be reclassified as ships to bring their users within regulations for merchant shipping."

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