[Paddlewise] Fundy Multi-Sport race Tradgedy (was 'disaster in the making')

Matt posted:
>>I don't think I've heard of the Fundy Adventure race. What happened?<<

22 year-old Rene Gabriel Arseneault of Rothesay died of hypothermia while
participating in a race where his single kayak overturned during a sudden
thunder storm and resultant high seas.

The first Fundy Multi-Sport Race was held in 2000. During the 2002 race,
after two successful races that changed the route slightly and the order of
the stages each year, the event had grown to the point where 69 racers were
ready to go the morning of June 1st. The 2002 Multi-Sport consisted of a 15
kilometre run, a 40 kilometre mountainbike race, and finally a 10 kilometre
sea kayak race. The kayak race route started down an inlet at McLaughlin's
Cove, pushed out pass Cranberry Head far to port and Reef point immediately
starboard, then past a few headlands proceeding southwest to the finish in
Dipper Harbour. The section of the sea kayak race is located on the New
Brunswick side of the Bay of Fundy, maybe 2/3rds the way down the tide-swept
Bay.

Link to Explore Magazine article (long, excellent):
http://www.geocities.com/outrageous_outdoors/DeathByAdventure.html

Link to coroner stuff/ message board comments newslink, etc:

http://www.gnb.ca/cnb/news/ps/2003e0235ps.htm

http://canadaeast.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030628/TSEBRIEF/306280065

http://www.eastcreek.ns.ca/_disc1/00000084.htm

http://www.geocities.com/outrageous_outdoors/Trailbywater.html

There's more. I've got some CG stuff and enviro-Canada stats too, but gotta
run for now.

Doug
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