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From: Bradford R. Crain <crainb_at_pdx.edu>
subject: [Paddlewise] ACA Accident Report
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:19:45 -0800
   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.

http://www.americancanoe.org/pdf/cj2.pdf

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Bradford R. Crain
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From: Dave Kruger <kdruger_at_pacifier.com>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] ACA Accident Report
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:40:58 -0800
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.
> 
> http://www.americancanoe.org/pdf/cj2.pdf

Can't get to them.  The thing hangs.  Anybody else having that problem?

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Astoria, OR
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From: Bradford R. Crain <crainb_at_pdx.edu>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] ACA Accident Report
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:22:55 -0800
   I had to close my e-mail program and type the URL into my browser
before it would come up.

Brad

Quoting Dave Kruger <kdruger_at_pacifier.com>:

> 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.
>>
>> http://www.americancanoe.org/pdf/cj2.pdf
>
> Can't get to them.  The thing hangs.  Anybody else having that problem?
>
> -- 
> Dave Kruger
> Astoria, OR
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From: Brian Curtiss <bc_at_asdi.com>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] ACA Accident Report
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:45:43 -0700
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
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From: Steve Holtzman <sh_at_actglobal.net>
subject: RE: [Paddlewise] ACA Accident Report
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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From: John Kirk-Anderson <jka_at_netaccess.co.nz>
subject: [Paddlewise] Trip report
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:13:43 +1300
Before Christmas a reporter and I convinced work that we should spend a week
of their time and money playing in the hills to give them something to run
in the paper over the holiday quiet period.

Not a great deal of paddling, due to my colleague being a mountaineer, not a
kayaker, but this may be of interest.

John has posted the trip on his PCT trail journal, which has allowed better
use of photos etc.

http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?id=214277

Cheers

JKA


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John Kirk-Anderson
Banks Peninsula
NEW ZEALAND
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