Re: [Paddlewise] River Death from July

I have had trouble wet exiting from a small cockpit kayak, when the women's
relief zipper on my suit was catching on both sides of the cockpit. This was
only when I hadn't burped my suit very well, and was caused by an expansion of
the seat area with the air when capsized (upside down). I learned to twist so
one hip came out of the cockpit first. Finally I ended up getting a different
drysuit with NO women's relief zipper.
      Pam in Washington State



-----Original Message-----
From: Joe P. <jpylka_at_earthlink.net>
To: MATT MARINER BROZE <marinerkayaks_at_msn.com>; Paddlewise
<paddlewise_at_paddlewise.net>
Sent: Fri, Oct 4, 2013 10:58 am
Subject: RE: [Paddlewise] River Death from July


  I've forgotten what the occasion was some years ago, but I remember
earching for a rescue drysuit in a SAR catalog and finding one with
 series of stiff rings imbedded in the legs.  Evidently there had been
roblems in the past with a person getting flipped upside down with too
uch air unburped in the suit.  It would go to the legs and keep him
ermanently upside and unable to get his head to the surface. The rings
upposedly helped prevent that.
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