> Whatever that was, not wearing a PFD hardly is what kills a kayaker. > A PFD just makes it easier to retrieve the body. > > If we just believe that a kayaker was lost because he/she did not > have a PFD on, then we will not learn anything from the accident. In this particular case, I disagree completely. The waters the guy was paddling in were over 80F, and literally team with offshore platforms and boats. If he was wearing a PFD, he'd be alive right now. Whether alive in the water, or alive on shore no one can know. Reading an update on the story, posted to CanoeTX, the man's body has been identified, and the kayak is apparently one he rented here in Seabrook; probably at the same place I first rented one last year. Boggles the mind, here I've spent close to a year getting ready to punch through the surf zone off a Texas beach, and some brain damaged person willy-nilly rents a SOT kayak and takes it out through some of the roughest surf of the year. Probably caring nothing but the PFD strapped on the rear deck, and a waterbottle between his legs. Richard Walker Houston, TX *************************************************************************** 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 Tue Oct 06 1998 - 12:49:25 PDT
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