Colin Calder wrote: > Do Leashes, tethers, epirbs, strobes, paddlefloats etc make a safer paddler? > Or quite the opposite, does making the informed choice NOT to carry these > items make a safer paddler? I have been reflecting on this for pretty much > the life of this list, and I believe the latter case. I wear a foam pfd and > helmet on the river but choose neither of them at sea. I might decide to > take only paddle, clothing and boat or I may have a boat full of kit down to > a vhf and gps. > When am I safer? Does the excess equipment make me an un-safe paddler? Colin is leading us to the swamp of self-examination, via the thickets of risk adjustment, and under the portals of justification. I have a simple answer: I am safer when I know what I am doing, and less-safe when I do not. Equipment is only the medium through which we adjust our accommodation to a level of risk acceptable to our own selves. Embellish at will. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** 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 Mon Apr 02 2001 - 08:46:10 PDT
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