At 11:19 AM -0800 1/20/08, Bradford R. Crain wrote: > Here's a report that will be of interest to anyone who paddles and >crunches numbers at the same time. What do you think of their tables? >I find them controversial at best. Keep in mind that their "kayak" category includes whitewater kayakers. While it appears they have data on the different types of kayaking they don't attempt to break out the fatalities into those categories (e.g. see page 30: "Of the 9.6 million participants of kayaking, 31% paddle freshwater with 20% of participation on whitewater, 31% paddle exclusively in coastal settings while 12 % paddle both fresh and coastal.) Brian *************************************************************************** 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 Jan 20 2008 - 12:45:53 PST
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