Melissa wrote:

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Hi JWH 2004,

On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 08:56:22 GMT, you wrote:


A GREAT!!! reason to learn a solid roll.....!!!!!!


While there are always good reasons to have a reliable roll, this
particular video is said to be a fake that was used in an
advertisement some time ago. I've seen this video posted by several
people over the past couple of years, but I've never seen reliable
source information about its origins.

Isn't there something about it on snopes.com?

That said, though anything is possible given the right - or wrong -
circumstances, I've paddled in the midst of breaching Orca and Gray
Whales countless times, and I've never seen a whale, breaching or
otherwise, upset a kayak. They've always seemed acutely aware of the
boats around them, and while they will come very close and interact
with boaters, their movements around the boats have always been
precise and graceful.

Go ahead and learn to roll, but let's not give the whales an
undeserved bad reputation! :-)

Yeah, I also thought that just looked fishy (pardon the pun) when a
paddling buddy sent me the video clip. Still, considering the way mother
nature just showed in Asia what can happen when it unleashes some of its
power, I'm not surprised by anything bad happening to humans anymore.

Wilko

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