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Re: Announce: Drowning
By:Kevn McAtee
Date: 7/30/2011, 8:07 pm
In Response To: Re: Announce: Drowning (Etiennemuller Muller Ireland)

: My closest call was getting caught under a windsurfer sail with a
: broken cover on a twisted harness line and unable to get past
: the mast for air.

: One's instinct is to go the shortest way and the way of habit.
: Windsurfing one comes up mast side because that is the shortest
: distance and where you want to be for rig control.

: Unable to pull the harness off the hook and getting very short of
: air the cold thought went through my mind, pulling harder is not
: working or going to work, if you don't settle down you are going
: to die.

: Amazing how the sudden seriousness of a situation can focus the
: mind. In the end I eyeballed the direction of twist, rotated and
: swam out the other side of the sail. By this time the option was
: a do or die option, it worked or I would not be writing this,
: but in retrospect I would have had a lot more time to try other
: options had I not wasted those few first moments in panic and
: fruitless effort.

: It is the only instance in which wearing buoyancy actually may have
: compounded the risk, as it prevented me from being able to sink,
: which would have made it much easier to untwist the harness
: line.
: I went through a similar situation when i my kayak overturned, u'd be suprised how fast thinking process works when theres the possibility that it could be the last, Kevin

Messages In This Thread

Announce: Drowning
Mike Bielski -- 7/29/2011, 10:33 am
Re: Announce: Drowning
Nick Riccardi -- 7/29/2011, 11:46 am
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Dave Houser -- 7/29/2011, 3:37 pm
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StephenHJ -- 7/29/2011, 4:04 pm
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Robert N Pruden -- 7/29/2011, 5:46 pm
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StephenHJ -- 7/29/2011, 7:36 pm
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Wayne Two -- 7/29/2011, 11:29 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 7/30/2011, 8:41 am
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Thomas Duncan -- 7/30/2011, 12:21 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 7/30/2011, 7:51 pm
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Wayne Two -- 7/31/2011, 1:14 pm
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Kirk Fredericks -- 7/31/2011, 2:00 pm
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Wayne Two -- 7/31/2011, 2:19 pm
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Etiennemuller Muller Ireland -- 7/31/2011, 3:30 pm
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StephenHJ -- 8/1/2011, 3:44 pm
Re: Announce: Drowning
Bill Hamm -- 8/1/2011, 2:07 am
Re: Announce: Drowning
ancient kayaker -- 8/3/2011, 11:18 pm
Re: Announce: Drowning
Etiennemuller Muller Ireland -- 7/30/2011, 4:14 am
Re: Announce: Drowning
Kevn McAtee -- 7/30/2011, 8:07 pm
Re: Announce: Drowning
John Messinger -- 3/24/2013, 10:19 am