On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, R. Walker wrote: > This is a good question, and has been bugging me for a while. Is > the coast guard there to save lives, or to save us from spending an > inconvenient night on the water or on some unplanned beach? > Frankly, I don't want to be "rescued" from situations that aren't > life threatening. If it takes me an extra day to extricate myself > from a problem, then thats the way it is, so I'll be late and a bit > hungry. Certainly not something I want the coast guard spending > thousands of dollars to allow me to avoid. On the other hand, if (snip) And while we're asking, who pays for Coast Guard rescues? After they save your life (or prevent you from coming home late) do they send you a bill for thousands of dollars? Or do our tax dollars cover this? Joy Hecht Arlington VA *************************************************************************** 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 Sep 25 1998 - 12:05:26 PDT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:29:59 PDT