>> >> 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 >> ************************************************************************** At 01:57 PM 7/10/98 -0400, Scott Ives wrote: >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 > If it is not so I think it ought to be cause I had not even thought of that. So as far as I am concerned its History 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 Fri Jul 10 1998 - 17:32:17 PDT
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