At 10:39 AM 7/9/98 -0700, Julio MacWilliams wrote: >I recently read an article by John Heath that explains how lethal >it is for the Inuit people to get out of their kayaks (wet exit), and >how ironic it is that the first thing that it is tought to sea kayaking >beginners is the wet exit. The same article has some statistics that >show that in almost all fatalities the kayaker is found (if found) out >of the kayak. > >- Julio The reason it was lethal was they had no dry suits, wet suits and would die from hypothermia(can't build a fire on a iceberg with out wood) 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 Thu Jul 09 1998 - 13:39:06 PDT
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