Steve Cramer wrote: > > > Another question has occurred to me: how did people know they were > "panicked?" They were screaming and waving their hands? What else would > they do? I'd think estimating someone's emotional state from 1/4 mile > away is iffy. I think I made clear that the drowning people were being observed from a popular promenade along a big city park's seawall and were just 100 or so feet away (the marina's closest docks were about a fifth of a mile away at most; that is why abandoning your kayak to serve as a large float was a low-risk possibility). They were yelling that they could not swim and people were imploring them to not panic and try to float, that help was being called, etc. That was the horror of it all, watching two people drown in what was, except for some wakes, a pretty benign looking situation. ralph diaz -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** 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 Fri Aug 18 2000 - 08:29:47 PDT
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