On Thu, Feb 19, 1998 at 08:57:02PM +0000, Ari Saarto wrote: > I could not believe my eyes! > 15 dead during 1997 in whitewater kayaking I'm not sure why you're surprised at this; given the immense popularity of the sport, or maybe more accurately, the immense *growth rate* of the sport, I don't think this is entirely unexpected. I just hope we all learn enough from it to prevent more of the same in the future. (It's also possible that 1997 was a bit of statistical anomaly and that following years will be more "normal" -- whatever that is.) This is not to say that these deaths aren't tragic; I miss Richie Weiss very much, and wish he was still around because I thought trying to be more like him made me a better person...but now all I can do is one more lap, one more loop, one more lift to remember him by and hope that I learned enough from him while he was with us. ---Rsk *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Feb 19 1998 - 15:43:20 PST
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