[Paddlewise] Re[2]: Double fatality, double kayaks, are you using sea socks???

From: Dan Hagen <dan_at_hagen.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 23:23:52 -0700
Ralf wrote:

...<snip>...

> But by the same token the invincibility that the Klepper owner has
> because of his boat is also shared by the non-Klepper hardshell paddler
> who is overly confident in his skills.  Witness the Norwegian who was
> just killed in Newfoundland.

The autopsy showed that he died of a heart attack. I'm not sure what
lesson we are supposed to draw by witnessing this event, except
perhaps that middle-aged paddlers should not paddle without an EMT in
tow.

Dan Hagen


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