Re: [Paddlewise] SV: Re. Tragedy in Sweden

From: Ari Saarto <asaarto_at_elisanet.fi>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:05:13 +0300
Dear Tord, Jens and all,

here is a link to a local news site, which has some interesting images.  
As you can see, there was some floating ice.

http://www.nwt.se/ArticlePages/200703/17/20070317085002_NWT409/ 
20070317085002_NWT409.dbp.asp

I will gather my little investigations into a small report... I did  
find out some statistics about wind and weather temps... No extra  
information from the club. I would like to know more about the kayaks  
and their training. The 5 to 15 training times of per week, which were  
mentioned in the interviews, do not tell anything about safety issues  
or their capability into risk evaluation.

Ari

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On 26. maalis 2007, at 17:57, Jens Viggo Moesmand wrote:

> Dear paddlewisers, it's at tragic incident for a WM paddler that  
> reminds me of the death of an canadian olympic paddler in Hamburg,  
> Germany.
>
> This is my unauthorized translation from Swedish. I paddle the same  
> waters and there are informations here that are difficult to  
> understand when it comes to type of kayak and rescue precautions  
> (battery condition).
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