ralph diaz wrote: > > 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 Ah, yes, I'm sure you did. The cloudiness was surely on my part. Still, I wonder what behaviors are observable from 100 feet that distinguish scared from terrified from frantic from panicky. Steve *************************************************************************** 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 - 08:56:17 PDT
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