Re: [Paddlewise] Reindeer speed in water

It may have been on this list a few years ago where someone remarked on whether 
you would rather meet a grizzly or polar bear--"you can negotiate with a 
grizzly, but to a polar bear if it moves it's food."

GaryJ

MATT MARINER BROZE wrote:
> 
> Also, the authors of "Paddle to the Arctic" and Kabloona in the Yellow Kayak"
> had an encounter when paddling in northern Hudson's Bay where they were
> apparently persued for many hours by a Polar Bear. What Polar Bears might lack
> in swimming speed they make up for with persistence and stealth. And yes, the
> swimming speed of Polar Bears is in dispute as well. The paddlers could out
> distance the bears (at least when the bear was doing a speed it could maintain
> for long distances) but the bear's persistance made it difficult to stop long
> for a rest
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