RE: [Paddlewise] ACA Accident Report

From: Steve Holtzman <sh_at_actglobal.net>
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:04:35 -0800
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
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