From: Alex Ferguson <a.ferguson_at_chem.canterbury.ac.nz> > >Thanks for the post and URL! On the mark for this list IMHO. What a > >tremendous undertaking. An incredible journey to be a "part of" > > Personally I found it interesting to see how much experience they have. > More enthusiasm than experience? There were two things I noticed, no trolly > - something I always take if there are only two of us. And why did they > keep hitting the side of the tunnel while towing? Or don't they know how to > tow while walking beside a boat? I read their comments about it being "found that zebra stripes on boat hulls repel sharks" so I took it to mean they painted zebra stripes on the bottom of their boats. I have never heard of this. However, I am aware of tests that were conducted using black and white stripes on dive suits because some sharks are afraid of sea snakes (which are black and white striped and poisonous). However, they were not aware that some sharks actually eat sea snakes and the black/white striped dive suits were a failure (though nobody got eaten, the dive suits did not scare the sharks). > Sounds like they have taken to the sea late in life ;-) > > Should make an interesting tale. Yup :-) Especially if they decide to use that gun on a mad crocodile. Jackie (still catching up on email...) *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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