Re: [Paddlewise] camping deaths

From: Gary Dunn <gdunn_at_home.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 01:10:18 -0500
This sad episode occurred about 10 miles from my home. The local news
report stated that they were not experienced campers and were using
borrowed equipment. The survivor found outside was so disoriented that
when he exited the tent, he rezipped the door shut. 

Gary 

rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com wrote:
> 
> Three canoeists on a camping trip in the Sandy Hook area on the New
> Jersey shore died from carbon monoxide fumes in their tent.  A fourth
> was
> found unconscious outside the tent.  It seems they were using a charcoal
> grill inside the tent for either warmth or to cook fish they had just
> caught.  It is a trip they regularly have taken each year.
> 
> Strange.
> 
> ralph diaz
> 
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