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what were the circumstances?
Posted By: rick stoehrer In Response To: Another tragedy of poor preparation? (Gary)
Date: Monday, 28 February 2005, at 10:14 p.m.
i work at a paper (and if my spelling and grammar are any indication, obviously not in the editorial dept)...facts don't necessarrilly get in the way of a good story or a good sound bite so take a deep breath and find out what the circumstances were...all that we know is that 2 kids died.
...so the school hired an outfitter/guide to run this trip or was it a bunch of chaperones? and if it was a trip run by outfitter/guides...what the hell happened? how many kids, how many guides? what was the ratio? what was the training/experience of the leaders? did anyone check a weather report? were those conditions predicted? did the float plan take that into consideration? what happened that they waited waited til 9 pm to start SAR? 2 kids separated in a storm - why the delay? was there a delay - when did they go missing? why, why, why?
most things can be avoided...why did this end this way?
anyone got any local knowledge?
: Just read this on CNN's web page: SUWANNEE, Florida (AP) -- Rescuers found
: two 14-year-old boys dead Monday in the Gulf of Mexico, two days after
: they became separated from their school group during a kayaking-camping
: trip off the coast of Florida, authorities said.: The bodies of Sean Wilkinson and Clay McKemie of Rome, Georgia, were found
: with their overturned kayak off the state's northern peninsula, the Coast
: Guard said in a statement.: They had become lost Saturday while kayaking with a group from Darlington
: High School in Rome and were believed to have been wearing life vests. The
: other eight people in their party were found Sunday, said Florida Fish and
: Wildlife Conservation Commission spokeswoman Karen Parker.: The group had headed north in the Gulf of Mexico and intended to skirt the
: coastline for 4 1/2 miles until arriving at Coon Island, where they
: planned to spend Saturday night, said Capt. John Burton of the state
: agency. The group, which included several kayaks and canoes, was led by a
: motorized catamaran raft.: During the trip, the choppiness of the water and the inexperience of the
: kayakers led some boats to get separated from the group, Burton said. All
: but one of the kayaks tied up to the raft, as 2 to 3 foot waves developed
: in the gulf amid scattered rains and high winds, Burton said.: About 9 p.m. Saturday, one of the chaperones, with a teenager, began
: searching for the missing kayak because they thought they saw a light in
: the distance.: But they became lost as well, and the two paddled for three to four hours
: until the chaperone was finally able to use his cell phone. He called his
: wife in Georgia, who then called the Coast Guard.: A Coast Guard helicopter located the six kayakers tied up to the raft about 3
: a.m. Sunday and a rescue boat brought them to shore. About an hour later,
: the helicopter located and hoisted the kayak with the chaperone and
: teenager aboard.
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