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Default Life jackets and kill switches

On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:58:42 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote:

On Thursday, January 19, 2017 at 7:46:33 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 15:52:16 -0800 (PST), Tim
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On Thursday, January 19, 2017 at 5:30:35 PM UTC-6, amdx wrote:
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/01/...758926/?spt=su


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I bet they skipped like a rock for a moment...


Yup. If you have ever gone down, cracking the whip on a ski rope, you
know the feeling. You bounce once or twice, then you break the surface
tension and go down, just like a rock.


Yup, that's a funky feeling, at least until you pop back up. Even at my slightly advanced middle-age, I still love getting on a smoothy patch of water and being thrown out at high speed on a tube. You zip across the smooth water and if you're careful, it's a rush. One misstep and you are skipping across the water and then boom, you're underwater.


That caused me two cracked ribs on a lake in Washington. Then, while climbing into the boat, one
with a big V-8 and big chrome mufflers, I grabbed a muffler to keep from falling back into the
water. Not a happy skier!