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From: <dmccarty_at_us.ibm.com>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] 1997 boating accident statistics
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 12:14:05 -0400
In a message dated 10/1/99 8:19:23 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
dmccarty_at_us.ibm.com writes:

<< My impression is that at the higher rapid levels IV+ the chance of random
death
 is very high in white water.  I define "very high" as I ain't going there!
Or
 on a III rapid either.  8-)  >>

|Me either. Class II in a kayak or open canoe is fine with me. Flatwater is
|wonderful too!

|BijiliE

After sending the note I wish I had used "unforseen danger/death/problems" or
some such instead of random.  I did not like random but it twas the best I could
come up with at the time.  Coffee had not hit yet!  8-)

I'm sure I've been on ClassII water a few times in my canoe and it was really
fun.  I've been on some flatwater that was moving very rapidly that could have
been very dangerous with the right conditions.  I was to ignorant to realize it
then but I do now.  And only because I learned quite a bit form the r.b.p
newsgroup.

Later...
Dan McCarty



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