I go out on one of our local lakes an evening every week to do self rescue and rolling drills, sometimes other join me but most days I am on my own. It is a sheltered grove with warm water, the perfect place to start doing these things -I know I have to go out one day and do it in real life conditions. Located in this grove is a rental place, one of those duck pond outfitters -reads mainly spontaneous walk by's rent their recreational kayaks and canoes. A couple of times when I broke the surface after blowing a roll (gets rare now) or a wet exit to do a reentry of one kind, I had some of their customers paddling very hard in my direction to save my soul. They hardly believed that I do this for fun, but most are impressed when I reenter and roll up (BTW I wear during my sessions the full outfit, PFD, Wet Suit, paddling jacket, pumps, whistles, horns, flares etc (no radio), not only to give a good example). One day I might give one of those guys a try to help me out of the water -wonder how that would work. However, nice to see that people respond to potential distress situations. cheers Ulli Dr. Ulli Hoeger Dept. Physiology and Biophysics Dalhousie University Halifax, B3H4H7, Nova Scotia Canada Phone I : 902-494-2673 Fax: 902-494-1685 Phone II :902-488-6796 http://is.dal.ca/~uhoeger *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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