Re: [Paddlewise] dying at sea

Sometimes you just have to be the "bad guy" and say "No, you're not 
coming." Not always easy to do. I took a group of college students to a 
barrier island near Charleston this week. I laid the dress for immersion 
info on pretty thick, so almost all of them showed up in full wetsuits. 
Now, I'm thinking that I should have made that a requirement for 
everybody. I polled the group and everybody who had a wetsuit was happy 
they had worn it. And not just the sole swimmer.

Steve

skimmer wrote:

> It irritates me greatly when I go out with paddlers who are totally 
> unprepared to fight- no pfd, dressed in heavy hiking boots, wearing 
> layers of backcountry hiking clothes etc (thinking of a trip my wife 
> and I took part in last fall). If they get in trouble, I will have to try to 
> save them- no matter how difficult they have made the job. They 
> brought 3 dogs, no spray skirts, one weak paddler in a (w)rec boat, 
> unable to keep up. We terminated the trip when that paddler was 
> too exhausted to continue and before we started out across an 
> open section of Delaware Bay that certainly would have swamped 
> both of their boats.



-- 
Steve Cramer
Athens, GA
http://www.savvypaddler.com
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