A scoop rescue is faster than paddling around the other boat and safer than getting out of your boat. You come parallel to the other boat, reach for the far side cockpit edge with one hand, push down the near side with the other, the boat pivots up and you can grab the paddler's PFD and bring the head out of the water so they can breath. They can then exit when the panic is passed, followed by a T-rescue or an assisted re-entry and pump. Hope that helps. Jo Foley Laurium, MI ACA Kayak Instructor, flat water *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
[demime could not interpret encoding binary - treating as plain text] Hi, I know this problem, too. There are different possibilities to react. The best way depends on the used type of kayak, kind of panic of the capsized paddler and your own abilities. What´s a good way at everytime, is how my former sports teacher in school had react in such situations. He shouts REALLY loud and direct and without any chance of misunderstanding what the paddler had to do. In this case it might be "OPEN THE SPRAYSKIRT!!!" or only "SPRAYSKIRT". Within the same second of shouting, you paddle beside to the kayak and give a helping hand or a bow, or you grab the kayak and help the paddler to get up. If its obviously impossible (circumstances, or a too long kayak) to react physical in this way, yourself could get out of your kayak and swim to the capsized one to help him or her. During my time in school, situations like these occured quite a few times a year under calm conditions or in a pool. We were always in Whitewater Kayaks, so it was quite easy to help the panicking paddler to get up. I remember one incident where a boy was on the best way, to drift in a very dangerous backdrifting stream. He was sitting there a look to the water like a hypnotised rabbit. My teacher shouts "PADDLE YOU FOOL !!!" (it was a little bit harder than fool) and the boy awake or his daydream and paddle backwards. Nothing happened. All the best Jochen ------------------------------------- surfsaturn.de präsentiert: Ihr Internet Service Provider für nur 2,5 Pfennig pro Minute! Nutzen Sie das kostenlose Webbüro mit E-Mail, SMS, Fax, Terminkalender und Adressbuch. zur Anmeldung geht es hier: https://register.surfeu.de/saturn_signup/ Timelife präsentiert: Akte X - Die unheimlichen Fälle des FBI Die Wahrheit ist irgendwo da draußen ... und jetzt auch bei TIME-LIFE! Kommen Sie mit, wenn Dana Scully und Fox Mulder versuchen, unerklärliche Phänomene aufzudecken ... Sichern Sie sich den ersten Titel und erleben Sie, wie alles begann... Akte X - Season 1, Teil 1 jetzt in einer limitierten Sonderedition zum Kennenlern-Preis von nur: DM 29,95 jetzt testen: http://www.timelife.de/surfeu/aktex/saturn.html *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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