Re: [Paddlewise] Plastic garbage bags

-Pat Moss wrote;

>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


I've read where the Navy experimented using different color bags to deter
sharks in the same manor Pat states.
Black was determined to be the color sharks were less attracted to. Certain
shades of yellow was dubbed yum yum yellow.
Arthur


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