No1 AND No2 - wow :-)... I can understand Big Brother's vexation; it makes impressin that he (BB) was affected by emotions in this case, and SAR crew were people who saw the picture better. Even though on occasion No.2 there *might* be some mistakes in trip planning, - he countered on the boat as his fast way out of there (what if the river would have frozen again)? But this is just my opinion. Probably, the very first paddler in North America (but not in 48 states) that was rescued due to PLB, were those 2 guys (one canadian and one australian) who paddled in a folding Klepper Quattro somehwere in Northern Canada. Eventually they've found themselves on top of moving and crashing ice on sea, jumped out of the boat and activated PLB. I think Dave read this link - it was about a year ago. If I recall it right, when the boat has already disappeared under the ice, and there was no safe spot on the ice moving and breaking all around them, they heard chop-chop-chop of rescue helicopter. > Here's the scoop on the canoeist who got fined for his (second) use of a PLB. > This was discussed here quite a bit in March/April. Anybody know how this > turned out? > > http://www.paddlermagazine.com/issues/2004_2/article_243.shtml (down about > three screens). *************************************************************************** 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 Sun Dec 05 2004 - 10:11:17 PST
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