The other death happened several years ago. I have never seen a full report, but as I recall, the kayaker was making a several-mile solo crossing to an island. As I recall, he was paddling a heavily-laden kayak (it might have been a Chinook) with gear strapped to the deck, and was using a kite for propulsion. The body, when recovered, was wearing a dry suit, but the drysuit was full of water, either because a gasket failed or because it was unzipped. If he capsized and made a wet exit while the kite was deployed, it is easy to imagine that the kayak was quickly pulled away from him faster than he could swim, especially if his dry suit was unzipped. This is only one of several sea kayaking fatalities that has never been investigated and reported by Sea Kayaker or featured in Deep Trouble. Chuck Holst -----Original Message----- From: Andy Knapp [mailto:Andy_Knapp_at_compuserve.com] Sent: Saturday, September 05, 1998 8:21 PM To: PaddleWise Subject: [Paddlewise] Lake Superior <...a sea kayaking fatality on Lake Superior. Does anyone have any information?> Chuck: I talked to Don Dimond last week. There was apparently a kayaking fatality near Thunder Bay earlier this year. A paddler drowned while attempting to cross from Chippewa Park to Pie Island, about a 7-mile crossing, in heavy seas. What was the second death on Lake Michigan (not the Polish paddler)? There are two paddlers attempting to cross from Chicago to Benton Harbor this weekend. -Andy Knapp ************************************************************************** * PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ************************************************************************** * ------ Message Header Follows ------ Received: from multitech.com by multitech.com (PostalUnion/SMTP(tm) v2.2 (Build 22005) for Windows NT(tm)) id AA-1998Sep05.202124.1944.334731; Sat, 05 Sep 1998 20:21:24 -0500 Received: from ns1.intelenet.net ([204.182.160.31]) by gateway.multitech.com with ESMTP id <16129>; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 20:22:56 -0500 Received: (from majordom_at_localhost) by ns1.intelenet.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA17445 Sat, 5 Sep 1998 18:20:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns.intelenet.net (intelenet.net [204.182.160.1]) by ns1.intelenet.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA17317 Sat, 5 Sep 1998 18:20:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from arl-img-4.compuserve.com (arl-img-4.compuserve.com [149.174.217.134]) by ns.intelenet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA11726 for <PaddleWise_at_lists.intelenet.net>; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 18:20:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root_at_localhost) by arl-img-4.compuserve.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/2.14) id VAA14037 for PaddleWise_at_lists.intelenet.net; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 21:19:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 20:19:12 -0500 From: Andy Knapp <Andy_Knapp_at_compuserve.com> Subject: [Paddlewise] Lake Superior To: PaddleWise <PaddleWise_at_lists.intelenet.net> Message-ID: <199809052119_MC2-5884-EC00_at_compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by ns1.intelenet.net id SAA17326 Sender: owner-paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Precedence: list X-Listname: Paddlewise Mailing List X-Subscription-Info: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
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