Nick Von Robison wrote: > I'm just wondering if anyone has any statistics on what the percentage > of death rate of say, one death per 1,000 sea kayakers is? It just > seems to me that everyone has a story to tell of a sea kayaker losing > his/her life, whether first or second hand. How widespread is this? > IOW, how risky really is the sport not in terms of personal assessement, > but real stats? I don't believe that anyone has done this for the sport of sea kayaking. Charlie Walbridge has been collecting stats on WW accidents and deaths for years - see: http://www.awa.org/awa/safety/index.html If we could get organized even loosely (for some reason the phrase "like herding cats" comes to mind) it might be possible to start something similar. And Paddlewise might be just organized enough to start something like this up - at least for North America (where PW seems to have it's widest membership). I think that when Charlie started collecting stats that it was outside of the formal organization of the AWA. If we could get participation from people all over the US & Canada we might be able to start something that could someday prove valuable. If anyone wants to delve into this further let me know either online or back channel - it might be a worthwhile venture. I'm not volunteering yet - but if there's enough interest - and if Jackie thinks that it might be a worthwhile PW project for an ongoing effort....... Dave Seng Juneau, Alaska *************************************************************************** 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 Wed May 31 2000 - 20:53:42 PDT
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