The juneau daily news is reporting that Ken struck his head on a submerged rock while teaching a student how to roll. According to the report he came out of the kayak and told the student he was o.k.. He then got back in the boat to paddle to shore when he flipped and did not roll up. With two heated swimming pools in Sitka I am not sure why he would be teachings rolls in 46 degree water, so it may have been a spur of the moment thing. Also that area does have large tidal flats with scattered rocks. It is easy to get fooled on how deep the water is there. It may take me a couple of days but I will try to get some exact details and find out what did happen. My contact in Sitka was unavailable this evening. Bob *************************************************************************** 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 Sat Nov 10 2001 - 19:18:57 PST
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