Re: [Paddlewise] wet exit? why?

I think there was another reason they didn't wet exit.  This sounds
silly, but I don't think they knew how to swim.  Remember that these
were freezing waters much of the year.  Why and how would they learn to
swim?  Feel free to correct my history if I am wrong!


 - Scott

dldecker_at_mediaone.net wrote:
> 
> 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
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