--- John MacKechnie <bigmac1_at_enter.net> wrote: > Just an observation I thought I'd pass along. In > addition to having paddled > for many of years, I also race a sports car with the > SCCA. I was very > startled to read a recent post on Paddlewise that > there had been 18, and it would appear now, 19 > kayaking fatalities this year. Not exactly a fair comparison. There are a lot more kayakers than sportscar racers. I don't know the numbers, but I suspect that 100 times as many is a conservative estimate. As an aside. I used to race motorcycles and knew a number of racers who died in activities related to the sport. Those who died traveling long hours to and from races outnumbered those who died racing by a good margin. I suspect the same is likely to be true of kayaking. Pete Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com *************************************************************************** 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 Jul 22 2002 - 10:19:21 PDT
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