"Although Andrew had 10 liters of fresh water aboard I wonder if dehydration might have been a factor in the incident; it can certainly create mental confusion and might cause an experienced kayaker to believe that his boat was sinking and that some action was required." This 10 litres of water had been desalinated. Andrew was using a Katadyn Survivor 35 manual desalinator pump. From the website: "He took 50 litres of fresh water, with the aim of working through most of it in the early days to lighten his load. He'll now be desalinating his daily H2O requirements - 15 minutes of pumping yields one litre of fresh drinking water." So that 10 litres represents 2.5 hours of pumping. With that requirement, it would be easy to shortcut getting supplies. Was progressive dehydration part of this? *************************************************************************** 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 Mar 25 2007 - 23:33:30 PDT
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