Brian Curtiss said: > 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: They did break something out though. On page 16 it says: "Sea kayaks represented a very small proportion of fatalities (1% overall and 5% among kayaks)". That indicates to me that the majority of the fatalities have to be divided somehow between the ww paddlers and the fresh flat-water paddlers. Makes me glad I'm paddling in salt water. Steve Holtzman Southern California *************************************************************************** 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 - 18:04:51 PST
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