Safety
Teak surfing
The dangerous, often illegal practice of holding onto a boat's swim platform to bodysurf the wake, exposing the rider directly to lethal carbon monoxide.
Teak surfing (also called platform dragging or bodysurfing the wake) is hanging onto the swim platform or transom of a moving boat and letting go to ride the wake. It is extremely dangerous because the rider's head sits directly in the exhaust stream, where carbon monoxide concentrates, and within feet of the propeller. Many recent CO inhalation deaths and injuries have involved teak surfing, and several states have banned it.
Proper wakesurfing, using a rope to get up at a safe distance and a boat with appropriate exhaust routing, exists in part as the safe alternative to teak surfing.