On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 11:45:26PM -0700, Mark Sanders wrote: > I was just reading an article about Shannon Christy who died in a river > accident back in July and it made me think of a couple things I thought > I'd bring up. Namely, the size of her helmet and the baggyness of her > drysuit! I'm puzzled by this: was she, in fact, wearing a drysuit when the accident happened? (Note: I'm not able to view the videos at the URL given later in your message, so my apologies if that's clear from context.) The Potomac in midsummer is like bath water. By July, it's uncomfortably warm, so much so that if you roll in it, there's no thermal cue that you're underwater. I'd think anyone wearing a drysuit or even just a drytop out there would be in serious danger of hyperthermia. ---rsk *************************************************************************** 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 Fri Oct 04 2013 - 12:56:28 PDT
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