Life Jacket Series: Part 1 - Devices Throughout the world, one million children die of unintentional injuries each year. Millions of other children are injured in ways that can affect them for a lifetime. The good news is that these injuries are preventable. There are solutions that are proven to work especially when it comes to keeping children safe around water. Research shows survivors of boating accidents were t wo times more likely to survive when wearing a life jacket. In addition, there is evidence to show that simple act of wearing a life jacket for the first time improves one's performance on donning a second life jacket - which means using an object to reduce drowning is teachable. The Dangerous Waters Report by Safe Kids Worldwide confirms what most professionals know to be true that the group with the highest risk of drowning are children aged one through four years. Safe Kids Maricopa County and Phoenix Children's Hospital have embarked o...