At 10:19 AM 8/24/00 -0700, ralph diaz wrote: ><snip> >Nowadays sometimes if some one is doing a rescue or rolling class, >dozens of skaters and bicycling passerbys get on their cell phones and >call 911. The poor practicioner rolls up to a surprising close up view >of the hull of a police boat!!! Yeah, no kidding. It happened to me once near the 520 floating bridge between Seattle and Bellevue. It was a clear winter day with high winds, and my friend and I were practicing cold water rescues in the clapotis near the bridge (more than 100yds away though as required by law). Near the end, we decided to do a double rescue and switch boats. By the time we finished pumping out, we watched amusedly as a small police boat made its way over to us. The boat was having extreme difficulty negotiating the extremely rough water. When he reached us, he was anything but amused... PO'd to the max, he chewed us out for making him work so hard for nothing. No doubt the drivers on the bridge had called 911 with a story about kayakers drowning. Kevin Kevin Whilden Your Planet Earth http://www.yourplanetearth.org (206) 788-0281 (ph) (206) 788-0284 (f) *************************************************************************** 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 Aug 24 2000 - 09:33:51 PDT
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