This morning I saw on the news wires a report about 15 kayakers (three groups) missing on the coast of Greenland. Within an hour, follow up reports indicated they were found safe ashore. They were hit by storm winds falling off ice fields at enormous speeds-rather like the winds we recently discussed in Newfoundland. None of these paddlers died, even though there were some capsizes. It seems some of the paddlers were in the water for a while. The hurricane-strength winds there are called 'piteraq' winds. You can find several published stories on this case by searching Google news "Missing kayakers Greenland". It would be great if someone can dig up some more detailed information on this case. Maybe Tord has an inside track on this. Chuck Sutherland (my posts don't seem to be getting through today) *************************************************************************** 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 Aug 11 2010 - 15:08:33 PDT
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