Washington, DC August 1998 -- Prospect Technologies announced today that one of its Web sites and information contained therein, will be featured on Dateline NBC. The US Coast Guard Office of Boating Safety Web site and all of its extensive information on safe boating and in particular, life jackets -- or more properly, Personal Floatation Devices [ PFDs] -- will be featured in a story to be aired in early September. This article entitled: "How can you tell if you're choosing the right kind of life vest?" will run as a feature preparing viewers for the large amount of recreational boating during the Labor Day Holiday Weekend -- Sept. 5 - 7, 1998.

This story and its companion article will be aired on NBC News and seen on the MSNBC Web site.

The article begins:

WE'VE ALL HEARD the saying "what you don't know can't hurt you." But when it comes to life vests, what you don't know can hurt you, maybe even kill you.

"Dateline NBC" has discovered boaters all across the country are not getting the information they need about the life vests they are wearing and they are putting themselves at risk by using those vests in sea conditions the vests can't handle. We've learned the Coast Guard stamp of approval on those vests may just be giving consumers a false sense of security.

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