Death on the water?
just skip over… Imagine if it were every death by auto.
No…
Don’t
Morbid curiosity - I read them all.
Learning curve for people who are clueless about the dangers you face with no experience, training and knowledge.
Should I have never read “More Deep Trouble” I learned a lot.
People buy a 300 dollar kayak and don’t realise to be safe in even 60° water they need another grand for gear.
You learn more from doing things wrong than from doing things right. But you have to live through it to learn. While sad and tragic, these are great learning opportunities for those of us still able to learn from them.
And I don’t think all of the deaths have been posted. I didnt see this one posted. http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2018/05/21/man-son-drown-minnesota/
OK, If I die in a kayak please don’t post about it here. I’ll have to trust you on this one…
I also requested that if I die on the road no one will erect one of those “in memoriam” roadside signs. What they say to me is “this is where dummy screwed up.”
As all of these reports note none of the deceased paddlers were wearing a life jacket, perhaps someone new here and to the sport may see the connection.
@Rookie said:
As all of these reports note none of the deceased paddlers were wearing a life jacket, perhaps someone new here and to the sport may see the connection.
You’re so optimistic. 
@grayhawk said:
OK, If I die in a kayak please don’t post about it here. I’ll have to trust you on this one…
I also requested that if I die on the road no one will erect one of those “in memoriam” roadside signs. What they say to me is “this is where dummy screwed up.”
If you die on a bike can we paint it white and chain it up somewhere that impedes foot traffic? No? Auto traffic then?
@qajaqman said:
You learn more from doing things wrong than from doing things right.
This only goes so far. You learn nothing from your own death.
@Sparky961 said:
@qajaqman said:
You learn more from doing things wrong than from doing things right.This only goes so far. You learn nothing from your own death.
That’s what I said. You have to live through it to learn. 
I am following this thread with some interest, as I do post some of the incidences/deaths to here. I do try to stick to ones that are very interesting. Or ones where we have a decent amount of info from the news (a rare thing) so that we can perhaps understand what happened.
I do follow the Coast Guard News blog (http://coastguardnews.com/) and they do report a paddlesport incident a few times each week. I also do know that not all the Coast Guards handles are reported, as there have been incidences I know about locally (such as when a kayaker had to be helicoptered off a rock a year or so ago) that don’t make it to the blog, so there do seem to be a lot of paddlesports incidences each year.
I was a Safety Officer and I did aircraft crash investigation in the Air force. I took accident reports and boiled them down for my fellow aviators hoping that by learning from mistakes made by others, they would not make the same mistake. Even experts under pressure would make very stupid fatal errors that are quite obvious after the fact. If we can imagine making those decisions under pressure before we actually encounter them, we stand a better chance of making the correct decision or at least a better decision and, therefore, surviving where someone else may not have been so lucky.
@Peter-CA said:
I do follow the Coast Guard News blog (http://coastguardnews.com/)
Awesomeness, thanks for that link! That will become my home page.
Here’s a good one about someone who survived, that answers the question: When is bringing a pfd not sufficient pfd preparation?
http://coastguardnews.com/hope-in-the-harbor-a-kayakers-fight-for-rescue/2018/05/10/
I would have called for help when I lost my PFD.
@qajaqman said:
@Peter-CA said:
I do follow the Coast Guard News blog (http://coastguardnews.com/)
Awesomeness, thanks for that link! That will become my home page.
Here’s a good one about someone who survived, that answers the question: When is bringing a pfd not sufficient pfd preparation?
http://coastguardnews.com/hope-in-the-harbor-a-kayakers-fight-for-rescue/2018/05/10/
If you don’t have it on you, you don’t have it.
@Rookie said:
@qajaqman said:
@Peter-CA said:
I do follow the Coast Guard News blog (http://coastguardnews.com/)
Awesomeness, thanks for that link! That will become my home page.
Here’s a good one about someone who survived, that answers the question: When is bringing a pfd not sufficient pfd preparation?
http://coastguardnews.com/hope-in-the-harbor-a-kayakers-fight-for-rescue/2018/05/10/
If you don’t have it on you, you don’t have it.
Agreed