At 02:14 PM 5/5/98 -0500, John Somers wrote: >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 That raises a nother question. Is it better to get struck by lightning or roll over and get ate by a gator? Durn now thats food for thought, and gator. Dana *************************************************************************** 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 - 12:57:28 PDT
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