Dear PaddleWisers, a Swedish athletic, Jonas Rappe died hypothermic at hospital on last Saturday morning at 4. a.m. He capsized on Friday afternoon with his friend when crossing a lake and the distance to the closest shore was one (1) kilometre. Surprisingly, the kayak, which was described as a 'extra sea-safe' sank. It took about 50 minutes to cover swimming the before mentioned 1 kilometre because also the other kayak capsized during the rescue. His friend did his best to help Rappe after they had reached a small island. He was wet and cold, but he courageously swam to the NEXT island and ran more than 2 kilometres in forest until he found help. There are many obvious questions. I am not quite sure how he was dressed because the press info fom his club was not revealing all facts. The water and weather conditions are also not described with details. I will try to translate the basic facts from the press file ASAP, though my Swedish is quite awful... I am very curious about the kayaks. Here are three links to those who understand Swedish: http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/karlstad/story/0,2789,1026040,00.html http://www.karlstadmultisport.com/e107_docs/blandat/KMS_20070317.pdf http://www.multisport.se/nyheter/nyhet.php?id=405 Considering the recent postings to PW list, this tragedy might be part of our learning curve... Ari -Finland, where the coastline is still covered by ice and cabin fever makes me crazy *************************************************************************** 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 Fri Mar 23 2007 - 16:15:35 PDT
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