Re: [Paddlewise] River Death from July

The article shows pictures of her both with and without a 
jacket/drysuit, but I think she wasn't wearing it when she died. I 
wasn't really trying to implicate her gear in her death, as it seems the 
area she went over in it might not have mattered what she was wearing, 
but it made me think others might have had issues in the past they could 
speak to. Big helmets and baggy clothes might not seem to be too 
dangerous, but when you get into trouble the cumulative effects of 
little things might have a big impact. I think when you read a sad 
article like this one, you just start to look for answers and it seemed 
this was the place to ask them.

Mark

On 10/4/2013 12:54 PM, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> 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
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