Matt Broze, George Gronseth

Sea Kayaker's Deep Trouble: True Stories and Their Lessons from Sea Kayaker Magazine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Contains more than twenty real-life accounts of sea kayaking accidents that offers you potentially life-saving lessons. This book contains selected articles drawn from "Sea Kayaker" magazine. It answers the questions: What did the paddlers do wrong? What did they do right? And, how might the accident have been prevented?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 212mm x 138mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 266g
• ISBN-13: 9780070084995
• ISBN-10: 0070084998
• Artikelnr.: 22399149

Autorenporträt

McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide

Inhaltsangabe

Preface by Christopher CunninghamIntroduction: Kayaking Safety; Index to
Safety Sidebars1 Drifting with the Current2 Another Lesson from the School
of Hard Knocks3 Of Risk, Knowledge, Choice . . . And Special Vulnerability4
A Tale of Two Rescues5 The Open Coast, or, All Your Eggs in One Kayak6
Risks Compounded7 Sea Caves, Arches, and Narrow Passages8 Long Swims9 Rough
Passages10 The Phantom Barge11 Run-in with a Great White12 Double Fatality
in Prince William Sound13 Happy Endings14 Surf Zone Accidents15 Saved by a
Drysuit16 Vanished17 Ferry Rescue in the San Juans18 Rosario Strait
Rescue19 Nightime Accident on Willapa Bay20 Lessons in Judgment21 Ice Fall
in Blackstone Bay22 Carried to SafelyIndexAbout the Authors and
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