09-06-2010, 03:10 PM
I agree with FG,
wearing clothing or not should not make you sink like a rock....back in the day when I went to boot camp...we had a water survival swimming course that made us get into our cammies and combat boots...we had to tread water...the point was to relax and learn that your body will rise to the top and the gear on you will not be a sink weight....when you go to the edge of the pool to get out you do feel the weight of the wet gear....but not when you are treding water...
the river is a different beast...I know someone who fell off a tube with a life jacket in the river...even though the floatation device saved his life, his body was full of bruies from rocky bottom of the river....
i truly belive this guide did not make a caluculated risk saying my life or my clients fly line....he had probably untangled many many many times the lines from his oar in the past...
.the trajedy was caused by something he might had never encountered before....a blow to head....injured arm or leg....maybe he thought that he had beached the boat enough but in the disstraction of untangling his boat had moved on and he lost his balance....
all we can do now is pray for his family...for us on the sidelines we should always consider safey precautions that can make our next trip safer...
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wearing clothing or not should not make you sink like a rock....back in the day when I went to boot camp...we had a water survival swimming course that made us get into our cammies and combat boots...we had to tread water...the point was to relax and learn that your body will rise to the top and the gear on you will not be a sink weight....when you go to the edge of the pool to get out you do feel the weight of the wet gear....but not when you are treding water...
the river is a different beast...I know someone who fell off a tube with a life jacket in the river...even though the floatation device saved his life, his body was full of bruies from rocky bottom of the river....
i truly belive this guide did not make a caluculated risk saying my life or my clients fly line....he had probably untangled many many many times the lines from his oar in the past...
.the trajedy was caused by something he might had never encountered before....a blow to head....injured arm or leg....maybe he thought that he had beached the boat enough but in the disstraction of untangling his boat had moved on and he lost his balance....
all we can do now is pray for his family...for us on the sidelines we should always consider safey precautions that can make our next trip safer...
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