Interesting how timing works, sometimes. This afternoon, lacking the information that the Post presented, while still hoping that someone else would start tracking the story, I made a few calls --- St. Mary's County in Maryland is a big place, but communications are good as well as predictable --- and wound up meeting with the museum director where the recovery of the kayaker was made as well as with the gent who went out to bring in the ill-fated paddler; conversations with him were off the record and general because he's still part of the investigation. But he referred me to the Department of Natural Resources police officer who has the case, and I'm to speak with him on Thursday. (As it turns out, any of our local paddlers (Virginia/Maryland/DC) who have provided safety boat escort for Joe Stewart's Potomac River swims will know the DNR gent pretty well.) It's springtime in this part of the world. The flowers bloom, the ground and the air turn warm, and longer and now dominant daylight hours draw us out on the water. The 46 degree F. water, that is. The water where temperature can --- and does --- kill. Relatively quickly last Saturday. Same story, new year. Dress for the water --- now, where have we heard that before? Details on Thursday if anything of significance is discovered. Jack Martin *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Mar 27 2001 - 20:51:10 PST
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