Re: [Paddlewise] Fatal Accidents Involving Folding Kayaks?

From: <Niilus_at_aol.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 23:44:05 EST
In a message dated 3/3/2004 8:17:13 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
kdruger_at_pacifier.com writes:


> A few of us were wondering why we never hear of kayak fatalities involving
> folding kayaks.  We could only think of Fritz Romer's disappearance.
> 

In "Seekers of the Horizon", Will Nordby, Ed., 1989, p. 107, there is an 
account of someone travelling in a blue and gray Folbot being killed and eaten by 
a bear in the Glacier Bay vicinity.  Actually that was more of a camping 
fatality.

Tony Niilus
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