Neil Harrison wrote: "if the lightning hits the water anywhere in the vicinity of your boat, you're still fried. At least, that's what they told us in the Wilderness Advanced First Aid class that I took.." Neil, this is very interesting, especially if the class instructors had any real-life data. Did they say what they based this on? I would expect the water to disperse the frying somewhat. But I also think we shouldn't kid ourselves into thinking these effects are precisely predictable. As someone put it, we're dealing with "likely to"'s, that is, phenomena that can be modelled only to the point of probabilities and not certainties. If I'm caught on the water and think lightning is about to strike, I want to take any steps possible to minimize the probability of being hit; worry about the absolutes later! Fought off any alligators lately? John *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue May 05 1998 - 12:22:25 PDT
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