Jochen said: >Slow? I never read on their swimming speed, but all films I saw where Polar Bears swim around, the seem to be quite slow. Much slower than 6mph. I donīt think 6mph could be truth. What I know, Polar Bears are or could be extreme durable swimmers, up to or over 300 nm in open sea are reported.< No, no. Roto-molded Polar Bears are durable. :-) Anyway, I think in was Victoria Jason's account in Kabloona in a Yellow Kayak that gave a rather animated account of Polar Bear swimming speeds (as in they were chased as fast as they could paddle if I remember correctly, until currents or something helped fend them off from the Ursus maritimus). That would be considerened a definite anecdotal account. As for the grizzly on Vancouver Island, if you added say 4 knots to the possible 14 knots out of one of the tidal rapids from the mainland inlets, that's 18 knots. Or was that 18kph, or? Okay, let's get a GPS on that wayward Ursus! :-) Doug Lloyd Victoria BC *************************************************************************** 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 Tue Aug 12 2003 - 23:53:39 PDT
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