due to the time of year, and the fact i already had a page done for this, i got the final version done last night, so the data jack refers to is copied to, plus links to chuck's cold water page: http://www.jacknjillz.com/paddler/cpr/hypo.html thanks fern & chuck for the assistance... the RMCC puts on a safety fair every year, the first couple years we did this on a lake, in early may... quite a number of folks found out they could barely swim to the shore from 100 feet out... [me included!!] see the rule of 50's on that web page... in understand jack will be helping the CPA with a y2Kold event... participate, it may save your life... mark On Thu, 7 Oct 1999 JCMARTIN43_at_aol.com wrote: > Scott wrote --- "... Worse case, the paddling jacket and farmer john > will get me back to shore where I can change." > > Maybe. But there's a lot of data around indicating that that might be > a dangerous --- even life treatening --- assumption. The Marines on > the Potomac, e.g., did not make it to shore. Similar scenario. > Which is why each of us who wants to paddle an extended or winter > season needs to actually try out his or her theories in a safe, > assisted environment, and determine if the risks are controllable in a > satisfactory manner. > > Scott says he's not going to go out in the dead of winter with his > farmer john; others do. Have they tested their equipment in realistic > scenarios? Have those who are convinced they can don their neoprene > hoods after being knocked down and either rolled up or swum actually > tried it in the water conditions in which they paddle? That's what > Y2Kold is going to be about --- learning, testing, assessing. Risk > management. Watch this space for details. > > Jack Martin -- #------canoeist[at]netbox[dot]com----http://www.diac.com/~zen/mark ---- # mark zen o, o__ o_/| o_. po box 474 </ [\/ [_| [_\ ft. lupton, co 80621-0474 (`-/-------/----') (`----|-------\-') #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~ http://www.diac.com/~zen/paddler [index to club websites i administer] Rocky Mtn Sea Kayak Club, Colorado River Flows, Poudre Paddlers The Colorado Paddlers' Resource, Rocky Mtn Canoe Club Trip Page -- Fortune: A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. - English Proverb *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Oct 07 1999 - 05:44:45 PDT
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