RE: [Paddlewise] How Would You: Change to. . . .PFD

From: Donald R. Reid <dreid_at_andetur.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 11:04:42 -0500
>    We have been through this all before. I have
> always taken the position
> that PFD's are not necessarily necessary, and
> have had to endure the back
> channel threats to my life as a result.

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>    Statistics can be so much fun! For instance,
> IF most boaters are not
> wearing PFD's, then it would be logical to assume
> that most boating
> fatalities would not be wearing PFD's either. It
> does not necessarily imply
> that had they been wearing a PFD they would not
> have become a fatality!

This sounds like the same argument for and against seat
belts in cars

Donald


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