My web browser is acting awfully clunky (it's a Micro$oft), so I can't give you the precise URL, but if you go to the homepage of the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (http://bst-tsb.gc.ca) and search under "kayaks" or for report number M93w008, you'll find an all-too-real variation of this scenario, with guides caught in just this sort of dilemma. Sobering reading, Philip T. At 08:18 AM 12/9/98 -0500, Dennis wrote: >About half the people taking the Maine Guide test fail each year. The >majority fail trying to solve the "lost person scenario". This is part of >the oral review and the scenario changes. Typically you are the guide(or >leader on a club outing)with a group of beginning kayakers. One kayaker is >"lost". What do you do? >Example: You are leading your group through a group of islands. The wind >has freshened and due to varying abilities to cope with the conditions the >group has gotten more spread out than you would like. While you are trying >to get your group closer together you make a quick count and notice that >your are one member short. You cannot see the person anywhere and there is >no response to a shouted call or a whistle. What do you do? >This is just one scenario. Others could include fog, rainstorm(squall), >getting dark, etc. >Comments? > >Dennis > **************************************** Mountain Equipment Co-op 1655 West 3rd Avenue, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6J 1K1 Tel: 640-732-1989 Fax: 604-731-6483 email: pid_at_mec.ca Visit our website at: http://www.mec.ca ***************************************** *************************************************************************** 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 Dec 09 1998 - 09:18:12 PST
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