Not that I disagree, but as one who occasionally does without his PFD when floating on the local pond with friends, I have to chime in :-) Another thing the "statistics" won't show are the hundreds or thousands of times that PFD-less boating has occurred with no incident at all. Steve wrote: >One thing that will not be found in any statistics are the hundreds, maybe >even thousands (???) of times a year that PFDs render an incident that could >have been catastrophic (or at least hysterical) into a total non-event. >These just don't get reported. ------------------ "At that moment a black vessel sailing on a cloud appeared and carried off the man's spirit." -Horace Beck, "Folklore and the Sea" *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Apr 23 2003 - 10:00:56 PDT
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