>From: "Sailboat Restorations, Inc." Richard Kemmer wrote: > >[snip] > > Like Doug, I ruminated on the La Nina expedition article -- especially >the > > common-sense policy of deferring to the least competent or least >courageous > > (least foolhardy?) paddler. That should be the first commandment for >every > > sea kayaker paddling in a group. >[snip] > >Nice post, Rick. I was moved by your comments about the Shumans. I >haven't >had time to read the La Nina article yet, but the idea of being guided by >the "weakest" member of the group strikes me as so fundamentally right, I >very much like your comment that is should be the basis for all paddling >groups. SNIP >Mark In SCUBA diving at night, in wrecks, or in caves, the rule is that any team member (cave diving requires a minimum of three) can call off any dive at any time for any reason, even just "I've got a bad feeling about this". If the other members of the team are behaving as they should, they will not require the "caller" to justify the decision to abort. Philip Torrens N49°16' W123°06' *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Jul 13 2000 - 18:50:40 PDT
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