There is a difference between making a warning video and an instructional video. If we can scare enough people we most certainly will invite a law to make people feel safe, like driving laws <G>. Show people a solution to the problem and you have something to show everyone. Maybe I'm overly optimistic but I think a lot of people who go into surplus stores, WalMart, where ever, to plunk out a few hundred bucks for a boat may well be willing, at that moment, to watch a short video on kayaking, as long as you don't call it safety. How many of you have read the safety info from a PFD? I suspect most of us think we already know safety and just flip through the booklet to see if anything looks "interesting." Safety is boring. I like Nick's senario. Show that but show some way out. No store trying to make money will show something that scares their customers. Joan <<Matt writes: Three minutes for a demo. Okay, I'd put him in his own kayak with what he wears for kayaking, then shove him over, when his head surfaces again I'd tell him that if he can't get most of his body out of cold water in the next 2 and a half minutes (and if the shore wasn't within a hundred yards or less) that almost certainly he would quickly become incapacitated and probably die from drowning or (if he brought a PFD) exposure or drowning. --------------------------------------------- Here's an interesting piece of information. Around the country there are a large number of cable access stations. . . . So let's take the idea of the demo that you mention above -- and instead of a demo for one person, you capture the moment on a video camera, and turn it into a cable access TV program. . . . You could send a copy to every high school in the country. . . . *************************************************************************** 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 Apr 18 2003 - 11:57:21 PDT
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