Re: [Paddlewise] Hip Waders!! No lifejacket!!!

From: Craig Jungers <crjungers_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 12:49:17 -0700
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Steve Cramer <cramer_at_uga.edu> wrote:

>
> Two questions:
>
> 1. Would the use of a life jacket have made it any easier to pull him out
> of the water?
>
> 2. Did anybody consider cutting the suspenders?
>
> If they had cut the suspenders then what would they have grabbed to try to
pull him out of the water. Geez Steve... ya gotta think this completely
through. And a PFD, of course, would have made it even *more* difficult to
grab the suspenders. We should not just immediately assume these people are
idiots.

Craig
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