RE: [Paddlewise] Numbers Crunching

From: AJ Mallory <amallory_at_Pawsable.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 09:14:43 -0700
Scott wrote:
<<In both the ACA report and my own SK survey, which I would like to remind
you deals only with sea kayaking related incidents, the percentage of people
dying with their pfd on is higher then that of those who died without it!
Why is that? >>


I would hope the number of paddlers wearing a PFD far exceeds the number of
those paddling without. Given this "huge" base of kayakers wearing a PFD,
the number of incidents of people involved wearing them may well be greater.
Because there are many more people out there with them on. One needs some
kind of ratio of PFD wearers to non-wearers. Anyone have numbers for that?

AJ Mallory
Portland, OR


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