On Thursday 11 October 2007 07:20, Doug wrote: > Additionally, they maintain very little body fat, which often > potentiates poor outcomes after a long immersion in cold water. Faulkner mentions this in the interview, that 'these guys had very little body fat'. They did raft up, after two of the other kayaks had arrived at the scene of the first scuttle, but as both victims quickly turned hypothermic the decision was to rush them back to shore - the woman clinging on to Faulkner's kayak and the man being loaded into other kayaks center hatch, really too small, as there was no room for his legs, thus upsetting the balance, but both kayak raced towards shore, in following seas, to save their friends' lives. Sadly the top-heavy one weered off, turning cross the seas, for some reason, unknown to Faulkner (possibly heading for land closer than that downwind), and evidently quickly got waterfilled and sank. Thus all three ended up in the water, and only the one survived - possibly due to little more body fat - long enough to be picked up by the rescue boat alive! For guys like these Chillcheater's Aquatherm stuff sounds perfect - thin and much more flexible than neoprene, and yet warm enough! Tord *************************************************************************** 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 Thu Oct 11 2007 - 01:07:36 PDT
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