Rich Kulawiec wrote: --snip of excellent advice-- > If contact with a strainer is unavoidable, then turn over, face it, > swim toward it aggressively (because you need to be moving faster than > the current) and CLIMB for all you're worth. As soon as your hands make > contact you need to be pulling yourself up, before your lower body gets > swept under the strainer and pinned. --snip-- Most folks who attempt it don't succeed the first few times due to bad timing (they keep their legs in the current a bit too long when they begin their vault). Since in reality it is a one shot deal with severe consequences, practise is imperative. Cheers, Richard Culpeper *************************************************************************** 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 Mon Oct 09 2000 - 16:25:13 PDT
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