Hundreds of boats are out on Keystone Lake with people enjoying Labor Day weekend. It is a big lake that the Marine Enforcement Division of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP) is tasked with keeping safe.

Trooper Ryan Griffith said the first two hours of his shift on Saturday, he stopped four boats and wrote two tickets. "Both of them were from people who were overloaded, meaning they had too many people on their boat or personal watercraft," he said.

Patrolling the Lake

OHP is looking for several things when its troopers are out on patrol. Every watercraft must have proper registration with its vessel numbers displayed on the side. The operator and those on board need to have a life jacket readily accessible, a photo ID, and must maintain a safe speed and distance from other watercraft.

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