Thanks for posting this account! An excellent narrative by the person involved. The most egregious item I see is the failure to repair bad seals on the drysuit. Without these, it's like a zip-lock baggy with holes in it, not a drysuit. Personal account-After a recent long day in Deception Pass, I realized that I was exhausted. I had rolled up after every other capsize that day, but at the end of the day, last capsize, into a whirlpool no way could I roll. I was disoriented once underwater and had no reserves. I wet exited, held onto the kayak, but had my head (well, my entire body) pulled underwater due to the force of the whirlpool. Luckily (no, it was planning on the instructors part) we had gone over this before the session started, and were told that whirlpools in Deception Pass move dynamically. If you are in trouble, wait and the whirlpool will move (let's say this is generally true but perhaps not always, especially in the Room of Doom). 5 or 10 seconds later, I could surface. I was given an assisted rescue and was able to continue. However, I recognized that I had really overdone it, and had no reserves at that point. Perhaps a similar situation occurred with Dale, especially after not kayaking for 2 1/2 weeks. Congratulations to him for surviving, not panicking, and even recovering his kayak! One question- did he have a knife handy for removing all the lines he and his kayak were tangled in? It's fine to take time to disengage, but in another scenario, he may have needed to cut the lines. Best wishes for future kayaking! Pam in Washington state In a message dated 1/8/2011 8:11:47 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, mstoccardo_at_hotmail.com writes: Excellent Accident report by Dale (kayaker in incident) in an associated article: http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20110105/NEWS/110109990/0/NEWS/in- d ale-moses-own-words-i-was-rescued-and-can-tell-the-tale > Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 07:35:09 -0800 > From: kayakbound_at_yahoo.com > > A thousand pardons to the list if this is a redundant post! > > http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20110105/NEWS/301059986/rescued-ka y aker-writes-what-he-did-wrong-in-brush-with-death *************************************************************************** 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 Tue Jan 11 2011 - 14:37:51 PST
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