Paul wrote: - >Briefly, a couple of months ago, South Australia (a large state in their >Union) unexpectedly passed a silly law prohibiting kayaks from venturing >more than 2 nm offshore. I reported on this a while back. >Peter Carter, a SA paddler, today reports success in having this nonsense >changed: http://www.users.on.net/~pcarter/regulations2009.html <http://www.users.on.net/~pcarter/regulations2009.html> G'Day Paul, Excellent news indeed and just in time for Freya. Many thanks to Peter, Ian and Australian Canoeing. The issue of PLB's vs EPIRBs is a national as much as a state concern. The main differences between epirbs and plbs are battery capacity that is 48 hrs for an epirb and 24hrs for a plb; also some epirbs will automatically activate on immersion and finally epirbs are substantially larger than plbs. Otherwise they are functionally very similar. The current legal requirement in most if not all states of Australia is for an EPIRB to be fitted in boats that are significantly off shore - distances vary from State to State and a plb will not suffice, however this was also being discussed at a National level with AMSA but I haven't heard that the requirement has been waived or is considered uncertain - If anyone has further information I'd be keen to find out. All the best, PeterO *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Nov 04 2009 - 04:07:57 PST
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