Julio MacWilliams wrote: > Then I started using a 1.5 foot piece of PVC pipe as a snorkel to > breathe fresh air, and that worked very well. When a roll failed, > I would just retrieve the pipe from the deck bungies, lean on > the front deck towards the surface of the water, pinch my nose, > blow the water out of the pipe, and breathe fresh air until I was > calm enough to put the pipe back in the deck bungies and attempt another > roll. > Let's see -- one hand holding my nose . . . one hand holding the tube --- whoops, there goes my paddle. Seriously, does this idea work in the kind of choppy conditions where you might need to roll? Or might you get an unexpected lungful of water when a wave crest passed over your breathing tube? Professor Karl S. Coplan Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, Inc. 78 North Broadway White Plains, N.Y. 10603 kcoplan_at_genesis.law.pace.edu (914) 422-4343 *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Nov 11 1998 - 12:00:20 PST
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