>I don't know about you, but I've seen power boaters come extremely close to >paddlers. What do you do if one of these boats hits you? Sure you'll sue >'em later, but what are you going to do in the mean time? While you're >unconcious how are you going to get that PFD on? oh, too late, now your at >the bottom of the lake, river, ocean... no need for a PFD now. Hope the >person that informs your relatives is nice enough not to mention that the >PFD that would have kept you afloat long enough for someone to rescue you >was still strapped on to your kayak. Well, at least your boat is okay. I wonder how many people paddle with a PFD that will support your head in the proper position if you are unconscious. I don't believe mine will, but at least I'll float to the surface. Brian. -- =============================== Brian Heifner Senior Technical Writer Rational Software Corporation Email: bheifner_at_rational.com =============================== *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Aug 06 1999 - 14:50:55 PDT
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