To the readers: Here is a story for the start of the season for "stupid boaters"; or perhaps new candidates for the "Darwin Award"; or even better, more good reasons why you should have the skills to assist and save a victim of hypothermia. From the New York Metropolitan area on Sunday, February 15, please read: > Copyright 1998 by United Press International (via ClariNet) / Sun, 15 Feb 1998 1:04:28 > PST > > Two survive capsize on Long Island > > YAPHANK, N.Y., Feb. 15 (UPI) -- Police on Long Island say two men are lucky to be alive after > taking an unexpected dip in the frigid waters of the Great South Bay yesterday. Suffolk County > police officers lept into action when a 12-foot sailboat capsized near the town of Bellport, tossing > 31-year-old Nicholas Pressley and 32-year-old David Lambi overboard. The officers > commandeered a 22-foot boat from a bystander and sped to the scene about half a mile from shore. > Pressley, of Brookhaven, and Lambi, of Rutherford, N.J., wore lifejackets, but they were already > suffering severe hypothermia when officers fished them out. They were both listed in stable > condition. > > A man and a friend canoeing on the Long Island Sound were not as lucky. One survived a tipping > yesterday. The other is presumed dead. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net ***************************************************************************
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