Try: http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=01e42efa-2c3f-4a24-b605-5c10f900b 8f9 Doug Lloyd Victoria BC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ "Whatever can be said at all can be said clearly and whatever cannot be said clearly should not be said at all." Ludwig Wittgenstein ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
Does anyone have any good information (could be reliable anecdotal info) as to how fast bears swim? I've read that polar bears can go 6 mph, which strikes me as slow for an aquatic mammal, at least for short distances. I'm unaware of any measurements of the speed of black bears or grizzlies, though. I know their running speeds have been clocked at over 30 mph. This thought occurred to me recently as I stopped in the middle of a paddle to watch a black bear foraging on the shore. Tom Joyce *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
> to how fast bears swim? I've read that polar bears can go 6 mph, which > strikes me as slow for an aquatic mammal, at least for short distances. 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. Why aquatic mammal? They live on the ice, most time, hunting seals aso. Swimming is necessary to change places, nothing more. What else should they they do in water? bye - jochen *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
If bear is an aquatic animal, then humans are perhaps too :-). Anyway, 6mph is fast enough to catch most of kayakers. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joyce Family" <tfj4_at_comcast.net> To: "paddlewise" <PaddleWise_at_paddlewise.net> Sent: August 09, 2003 5:29 AM Subject: [Paddlewise] Bears' Swimming Speed > Does anyone have any good information (could be reliable anecdotal info) as > to how fast bears swim? I've read that polar bears can go 6 mph, which > strikes me as slow for an aquatic mammal, at least for short distances. *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
----- Original Message ----- From: "alex" >Anyway, 6mph is fast enough to catch most of kayakers. To be safe, you only have to be faster than the slowest paddler. *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
Google: "polar bear" "swimming speed" From SeaWorld / Busch Gardens 4. Polar bears can obtain a swimming speed of 10 kph (6.2 mph) (Stirling, 1988). Enviro New Net (enn.com) How they get around -- Polar bears are capable of traveling 19 miles or more per day for several days. The average walking speed is 3.4 mph, but when being chased or charging prey, their maximum speed is 25 mph for short distances. They are also strong swimmers, and can swim for several hours at a time over long distances; some have been tracked swimming continuously for 62 miles. Swimming speed can reach 6.2 miles per hour. Polar bears usually swim under water at depths of only about 10 to 15 feet. They can remain submerged for as long as two minutes. Enn.com appears to be quoting the same study. GaryJ Joyce Family wrote: > Does anyone have any good information (could be reliable anecdotal info) as > to how fast bears swim? I've read that polar bears can go 6 mph, which > strikes me as slow for an aquatic mammal, at least for short distances. I'm > unaware of any measurements of the speed of black bears or grizzlies, > though. I know their running speeds have been clocked at over 30 mph. This > thought occurred to me recently as I stopped in the middle of a paddle to > watch a black bear foraging on the shore. +--------------------------------+ | /"\ | | \ / | | X ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN | | / \ AGAINST HTML MAIL & NEWS | +--------------------------------+ *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
"Arctic Dreams" by Barry Lopez is a fascinating source of information about the Arctic and Arctic animals. It has an extended chapter about polar bears. They are specifically adapted to swimming, and I'm not surprised about the reported speed (6.2 mph) in the water. We gave the one we saw a wide berth, since the naturalist we saw said "you can reason with a grizzly bear, but to a polar bear, if it moves it's food." Dave *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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/ ***************************************************************************
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