Re: [Paddlewise] Plastic garbage bags

Heavy Duty Black Garbage Bags are great. I carry one whenever I am in a
single or light twin engine airplane. The idea is if you crash (which I
did once) you pull the bag over your legs, as high up as you can. Then
your cute wiggling legs are not as appealing to the sharks. Keeps a
little body heat in too.
Pat 

--- Michael Daly <michaeldaly_at_home.com> wrote:
> TGP33_at_aol.com wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone ever used a plastic garbage bag as an
> emergency floatation device?
> > It's already folded, all you have to do is wave it
> arould until it fills up
> > enough, squeeze the opening, keep it in front of
> you and dog paddle to the
> > shore. I tried it on a lake and it worked fine.
> It's no substitute for a vest
> > but it can come in handy.
> 
> One of the instructors in our club gave us similar
> advice this winter -
> except he recommends carrying a big, orange,
> body-bag type
> emergency blanket thingy.  Not the light aluminized
> mylar stuff,
> but a heavy orange plastic bag.   He's tested it and
> didn't have
> to wave it around; the wind was enough to inflate
> it.  I think
> Coghlans sells them.  The plus is that it remains as
> an
> emergency shelter/blanket etc.  He carries it in a
> pocket he's
> attached to the back of his PFD, along with matches
> etc.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
>
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