Doug Lloyd writes: > I am currently looking for safety >article material for Sea Kayaker Magazine. Please make a note of my e-mail >address, and forward any accident or incident information to me, if you >would like, for follow up. If you do something on PFD's, there has been a number of folks that are using carabiners to secure their tow-rope to their PFD's. The carabiner that came with my (Lotus) tow-rope did not have a locking device on it. I was in the surf...on a sit-on-top. When knocked over, I fell off, at which time my carabiner cliped onto a deck line and I was trapped underneath the kayak. I was able to hold my breath in the surf long enough to un-snap myself. I have replaced the caribiner with a "locking-carabiner." Now I won't worry about being accidentally clipped underneath the kayak, or to any other line that happes to be in the way during a capsize. Seems like an appropiate bit of data to publish on safety. Robert *************************************************************************** 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 Jan 20 1999 - 09:29:56 PST
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