Use a chart which shows the depth of water to plot where you want to go and where you are.
Consult up-to-date charts, and keep a weather eye out.
Sit down
Running aground, resulting in being "grounded", or aground. Run Aground. Should a vessel run aground and there be a tide that has receded enough to show the sea bottom, the vessel is said to be "high and dry." Also known as "Beached"
If your boat runs aground, check to see if anyone's hurt, and render assistance as necessary.
The boat ran aground on the lake's sandbar.
If a vessel is aground on another boat, it must have had a collision with the boat it is aground on. The coastguard will therefore be investigating the scene with a view to prosecuting one or other of the vessels captains.
If your inboard outboard boat runs aground what action should you take?
You are lucky.
If your boat runs aground, check the safety of passengers, then check for leaks.
The distance between the bottom and the keel of a boat is the draught (British English).
Raise the motor, get out and push the boat to deeper water.
The boat ran aground on the reef.