>To back this up, the course that Gerry Dworkin teaches on Water Rescue has a really unpleasant amateur video of an incident at a low-head in New England, where a rescue craft approaches a dam to retrieve a PFD lost the day before during an attempted rescue in which a couple of people --- including, if I remember correctly --- a rescue worker IIRC this happened about 10 years ago in Binghamton NY. The rescuers were not trying to retrieve the PFD. They honestly thought that it was a body, possibly still alive. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Jul 05 2000 - 21:40:33 PDT
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