How do you get people to submit information to the website?

In the case of sailing, I would think that would be the most difficult thing. Just in the United States, how would you even let all the sailors, both cruising and racing, know about the website?

And lots of people who have close calls of one sort or another don't think much about it, or else they are embarrassed to talk about it.

When people have really bad incidents, some of them don't want to talk about it at all.

Class associations don't like bad incidents publicized for fear it will reflect badly on their type of boat.

As a result, we only really hear about incidents that end in death or in court or in US Sailing's rescue awards program.

I have been told that Marine Patrol down here in South Florida rescues people in catamarans about once a month, but we never hear about any of those and we don't know what happened.

So, how can that kind of information about accidents and incidents involving beach cats be collected and compiled?

Most of the accidents involving catamarans for the past few years have involved collisions with powerboats or PWCs. But those are the ones that get the publicity.

This all still begs the question of how to get sailors to report all the incidents that only they know about (assuming there would be a place to make their reports and that every sailor knows about that place).