Hi, I am Mort Kovacs, and I am the Rescue Boat Instructor for the Ocean City Maryland Beach Patrol. In this segment of our video on personal watercraft I am going to talk about one of the important differences in operating a boat or personal watercraft from operating a car. In personal watercraft, you will see where the steering nozzle in the back of the watercraft provides all your steering, but if you are not giving it any gas and no water is coming through that nozzle, and therefore you are not going to have any steering. Now, some personal watercrafts are equipped with steering assist, but when you are operating at a high speed, they dont really give you effective steering control over the vessel. For example, some watercraft have fins that come out of the watercraft at about this point, and if you turn the steering column, the fin will come out and it creates more drag on one side of the vessel and it will pull it to that side. This personal watercraft is equipped with the steering assist that actually gives itself gas. If you are turning at a high speed and you take your hand off the throttle, the jet ski will automatically give itself gas to accommodate that. But again, if you are operating at a high rate of speed, the effect of that turning is minimal and you have to remember to give it gas yourself. I am going to talk about idling the boat, and how once you get it started the boats going to continue to move forward.