> An article in our club newsletter discribed how a guide was badly hurt > when a handflare exploded. ........ > On occasions durin inspection it was found that the > flares were left in the firing position. .......... > ****** The question that I ask myself is can this happen without being > dropped ? > Say inside the boat or on top due to heat or rough seas ? What Eddie might have missed and what the guiding copmpany's rep told us at the kayak forum was that, being in the firing position, the flare was dropped (in its container) and it now "fired". The explosion was caused by being in a sealed container. Normally a flare can burn and the gasses expand at the correct rate when in free air. The key part to the whole episode was that the flare was triggered as it would be if done intentionally (except of course for the container). (You missed a good sea kayak forum Eddie, we always have good weather when they are held in the South Island !!!!!!) "This is a "dig" because the Auckland one (where Eddie lives) always has attrocious weather - always, right? " Alex -- ---------------------------------------------------- Alex Ferguson a.ferguson_at_chem.canterbury.ac.nz Electronics Workshop, Chem Dept, Univ of Canterbury Christchurch, New Zealand *************************************************************************** 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 Sun Oct 04 1998 - 13:52:41 PDT
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