Dave wrote: - >Coincidentally, I believe there are more injuries and >deaths on sailboats from low hanging power lines than >from lightning. G'Day and you're spot on!!!!!!!! I've had two near misses in my life, One in a chartered sailboat with a commercial skipper who was having a bad night when his mast hit an 11kV line blacking out a whole suburb. The molten copper droplets ruined a good shirt and people holding on to the deck rail felt the 50Hz vibration - they were very lucky! I just hope noone was on life support in the suburb. No good. The other was when due to bad judgement I found myself in a kayak caught in open water in a major storm. For about 300 meters every time I touched the water with the right blade I got a tiny shock between my right hand and the paddle. I'm guessing it was electricity I don't really know, but it certainly felt like it. Got to shore in record time. If only I could paddle that fast normally. Both events within 3 years. So far with this sample of one the odds are getting very close to 50:50:~) We have great storms in Sydney and they always seem to happen on a Thursday night when we want to go paddling and have to go to the bar instead. All the best, PeterO *************************************************************************** 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 Fri Aug 23 2002 - 03:49:17 PDT
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